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Department of Veterans Affairs Options for Long-Term Care

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The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has developed several options for long-term care including traditional institutional care as well as innovative programs for community-based long-term and post-acute care. Similar to the Triple Aims of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the VA is focused on providing cost-effective care using community-based services aimed at reducing hospitalizations and preventing institutionalization. These VA services include Hospital in Home, Home-Based Primary Care, Clinical Video Telehealth (CVT), Telehealth, and Homemaker Home Health Aide services. End-of-life care including hospice may be available to Veterans based on patient need. Also, Veterans may receive nursing facility (NF) care based on military service-connected status, level of disability, and lack of income. This would be available either at an inpatient VA facility called a Community Living Center (CLC) or at a VA contracted nursing facility.

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  1. Palliative Care Services, Corporal Michael J. Crescenz VA Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    Deborah Way

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  1. Family and Preventive Medicine, OU Health Science Center, Oklahoma City, OK, USA

    Peter Winn

  2. The University of Pennsylvania, Jenkintown, PA, USA

    Pamela A. Fenstemacher

  3. Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    Richard G. Stefanacci

  4. Department of Geriatrics, Penn Medicine, Lancaster General Health, Lancaster, PA, USA

    R. Scott DeLong

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Way, D. (2023). Department of Veterans Affairs Options for Long-Term Care. In: Winn, P., Fenstemacher, P.A., Stefanacci, R.G., DeLong, R.S. (eds) Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine. Current Clinical Practice. Humana, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-28628-5_5

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