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    • VA Community Care Comparison (VAC3) - FY2022 All Facilities

    Metadata Updated: July 2, 2025

    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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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date December 17, 2022
    Metadata Updated Date July 2, 2025
    Data Update Frequency R/P3M

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from VA JSON

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date December 17, 2022
    Metadata Updated Date July 2, 2025
    Publisher Department of Veterans Affairs
    Maintainer
    Identifier https://www.data.va.gov/api/views/twqi-8g6f
    Data First Published 2022-08-23
    Language en-US
    Data Last Modified 2023-03-21
    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 5a06c3df-a82f-4ec3-9978-07acad9e4607
    Harvest Source Id fcd1f625-1c2e-4663-95cf-1b0eb053cce1
    Harvest Source Title VA JSON
    Homepage URL https://www.data.va.gov/d/twqi-8g6f
    License https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
    Old Spatial United States, Puerto Rico
    Program Code 029:040
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 5ce23b9c7b43eb22278ae48b2b7ac4c19b17e3a655b3a1b1c273d3879fbd0379
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial
    Temporal 2021-10-01/2022-09-30

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