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Evaluation of the Lovell Federal Health Care Center Merger
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The Captain James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center (FHCC) in North Chicago, Illinois, is an effort by the Departments of Veterans Affairs (VA) and Defense (DoD) to create a national model for joint delivery of health care that is more accessible and less expensive than operating two federal medical centers serving overlapping beneficiaries in the same area. The creation of the Lovell FHCC also permits the VA to continue and even to expand inpatient services in North Chicago—where the North Chicago Veterans Affairs Medical Center (NCVAMC) had been threatened with closure—because of the additional workload provided by Navy beneficia- ries after the Naval Hospital Great Lakes (NHGL) was closed. North Chicago is the site of Naval Station Great Lakes, which houses the Recruit Training Command (RTC) and the Training Support Center (TSC). The RTC runs the Navy’s boot camp for all new enlisted recruits, and the TSC runs the “A” schools, which are advanced training programs for enlisted sailors. Each year, approximately 35,000 recruits and 16,000 A-school students spend several months at Great Lakes. NHGL’s catchment area also includes approximately 67,000 military retirees and family mem- bers. The NCVAMC was built on former Navy land, and its catchment area contains approximately 78,000 military veterans. When planning for the Lovell FHCC began in the early 2000s, NCVAMC recorded approximately 215,000 outpatient visits and 600 acute inpatient admissions per year. At the NHGL, there were approximately 600,000 medical outpatient visits, 187,000 dental outpatient visits, and 2,600 acute inpatient admissions per year.
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Healthcare Management
English
2012
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