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HEHS-95-160R 1 (1995-05-16)

handle is hein.gao/gaobackvp0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G AUnited States General Accounting Ofe Washington, D.C. 20548 Health, Education and Human Services Division B-261398 May 16, 1995 The Honorable Bill McCollum House of Representatives The Honorable Dave Weldon House of Representatives The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) will assume control of the Naval Hospital in Orlando, Florida, later this year. As you know, VA plans to convert the Naval Hospital into a nursing home, while continuing to operate the existing outpatient clinics. VA also plans to construct a new hospital and nursing home in Brevard County, 50 miles from Orlando. As Representative McCollum initially requested, we are examining VA's acquisition of the Orlando Naval Hospital and its intended use of this facility. More specifically, we are assessing whether the conversion of the Naval Hospital to a nursing home is the most economical and prudent use of resources. As requested, we are also exploring available options and, if possible, we will suggest a more prudent and economical way to meet VA's service delivery goals for Florida veterans. On March 26, we briefed Representative McCollum on the preliminary results of our work. At his request, we briefed Representative Weldon on March 28. On April 7 you jointly asked that we address a series of questions relating to information we presented during the briefings, as well as other matters. This letter is our response to your April 7 request. As agreed at the briefings, we are preparing a report that presents the final results of our work. In developing information in response to Representative McCollum's initial request, we evaluated the information VA developed and considered in making its construction planning decisions in Florida. In general, VA relied on its Integrated Planning Model to project veterans' inpatient, outpatient, and nursing home workload. We examined data that VA developed to support key variables GAO/HEHS-95-160R VA's Florida Network Planning

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