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    • 2009 VHA Facility Quality and Safety Report - Hospital Settings

    Metadata Updated: August 2, 2025

    The 2008 Hospital Report Card was mandated by the FY08 Appropriations Act, and focused on Congressionally-mandated metrics applicable to general patient populations. The 2009 VHA Facility Quality and Safety Report report, not required by Congress, shifts to Veteran-centered metrics, and includes information related to infrastructure, care provided in outpatient and hospital settings, quality of care within given patient populations, accreditation status, patient satisfaction and patient outcomes for FY2008. The data in this report have been compiled from multiple sources throughout VHA. This dataset includes adjusted mortality rate for three defined populations: Pneumonia, Congestive Heart Failure, and Acute Myocardial Infarction, Nosocomisal Infections, Percent of patients on prophalaxis for deep vein thrombosis and Observed minus expected length of stay.

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: Creative Commons CCZero

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date August 2, 2025
    Data Update Frequency R/P1Y

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from VA JSON

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date August 2, 2025
    Publisher Department of Veterans Affairs
    Maintainer
    Identifier VA-VHA-OIA-001
    Data First Published 2017-07-26
    Language en-US
    Data Last Modified 2020-05-15
    Category Section 3. Health and Nutrition
    Public Access Level public
    Data Update Frequency R/P1Y
    Bureau Code 029:15
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Metadata Catalog ID https://www.data.va.gov/data.json
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Data Quality True
    Data Dictionary https://www.va.gov/vetdata/docs/VHA_2009_Facility_Quality_and_Safety_Report_Final.pdf
    Data Dictionary Type application/pdf
    Harvest Object Id db3343e7-aa9c-4980-a778-7af777f06ef4
    Harvest Source Id fcd1f625-1c2e-4663-95cf-1b0eb053cce1
    Harvest Source Title VA JSON
    Homepage URL https://www.data.va.gov/d/7n8t-uiin
    License https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
    Program Code 029:040
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash b4bd4ce556a2dfa29de0590d695536d22a0ff49c86fb6b663abafd4c4e78e2ce
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Temporal 2008-10-01T04:00:00Z/2009-09-30T04:00:00Z

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