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B-133044 1 (1974-07-19)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabknr0001 and id is 1 raw text is: * ~~RESTITD- oto be released outs- Accounting Office except on the bsis of g c aproval LER ~by he office of Conlgressional lReiaions, COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 B-133044 O 1 4&RELEASED The Honorable Alan Cranston JUL 1 9 1974 Chairman, Subcommittee-on Health and Hospitals Committee on Veterans' Affairs United States Senate Dear Mr. Chairman: Your July 9, 1973, letter requested that we monitor a Veterans Administration (VA) demographic study of the area to be served by a VA hospital to be built in Loma Linda, California. According to VA, you requested that three matters be included in the study: --The hospital's probable catchment area. --The veteran population in the catchment area. --The required bed size of the hospital. VA entered into an agreement with the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) to make the study. The study report was completed April 1, 1974. The study results were reported to you in a letter from VA dated May 8, 1974, together with a copy of the study report. In examining the study, we retained Dr. Charles D. Flagle, Pro- fessor, Public Health Administration (Operations Research), The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. In general, we agree with the methodology used to conduct the study. However, the study report (p. 27) discusses an alternative to estimating hospital use which may be preferable to the method used. It is not known whether use of the alternative would have resulted in UCLA's, recommending a different size hospital. According to the VA official in charge of the study, the alternative was not used primarily because of time constraints. UCLA was requested to complete the study before award of the construction contract for the hospital. The contract was awarded on May 7, 1974. The following additional factors regarding the hospital may interest you. VA HOSPITAL BED NEEDS Eligible veterans residing in the Loma Linda catchment area have access to one or more other existing VA hospitals in Southern California.

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