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    • VA Community Care Comparison (VAC3) - FY2021 All Facilities - Formerly Why Not the Best VA

    Metadata Updated: June 25, 2021

    VA Community Care Comparison or VAC3 (formerly Why Not the Best VA) is a system for comparing Veterans Health Administration (VHA) hospital system performance with regional and U.S. national benchmarks.  This report includes key quality measures available on CMS Hospital Compare and top hospital recognition programs from reporting agencies of hospital quality. VAC3 data tables are updated every quarter.

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

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    Metadata Created Date June 25, 2021
    Metadata Updated Date June 25, 2021
    Data Update Frequency R/P3M

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from VA JSON

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date June 25, 2021
    Metadata Updated Date June 25, 2021
    Publisher Department of Veterans Affairs
    Maintainer
    Identifier https://www.data.va.gov/api/views/dk4k-6q54
    Data First Published 2021-06-24
    Language en-US
    Data Last Modified 2021-06-24
    Category Hospital Quality Measurement
    Public Access Level public
    Data Update Frequency R/P3M
    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
    Harvest Object Id 7ba5b067-92b3-4846-a0e8-6afc14fd6479
    Harvest Source Id fcd1f625-1c2e-4663-95cf-1b0eb053cce1
    Harvest Source Title VA JSON
    Homepage URL https://www.data.va.gov/d/dk4k-6q54
    License https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
    Program Code 029:040
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash eb6b6d47feafc72ecb3c28dcfaf63aefc78dc129
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial United States, Puerto Rico
    Temporal 2020-10-01/2020-12-31

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