VA to launch largest reorganization of health care system in 30 years
The Department of Veterans Affairs is planning a massive reorganization of its health care management system, reducing the number of networks that support VA medical centers and realigning policy offices to promote consistency.
In the largest planned overhaul of the Veterans Health Administration framework since 1995, the department will slash the number of Veterans Integrated Service Networks, or VISNs, from 18 to five and require them to report directly to the VA under secretary for health.
The plan calls for eliminating the VHA chief operating officer and placing VHA Central Office staff under the under secretary, the deputy under secretary for health or the associate deputy under secretary.
VA officials said in briefings earlier this week that the changes will reduce VHA's "complex bureaucracy" while improving communications and consistency in policy making, systems and technology.
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