Fostering Excellence: An Examination of High-Enrollment VHA Medical Foster Home Programs

Overview

Journal Home Health Care Manag Pract

Publisher Sage Publications

Specialty Health Services

Date 2019 Oct 30

PMID 31660039

Citations 2

Authors

Jacqueline Jones

Leah M Haverhals

Chelsea E Manheim

Cari Levy

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Abstract

This qualitative study aimed to assist the US Veterans Health Administration (VHA) to efficiently target recruitment into VHA Medical Foster Homes (MFHs) by understanding how high-enrollment MFH (HE-MFH) program attributes optimized MFH enrollment. We used an emergent exploratory design to study 3 HE-MFH programs across the United States. Data were collected from August 2013 through June 2014 through individual in-person and phone interviews and in-person focus group discussions with 39 MFH care providers. Three main themes emerged as essential for optimizing HE-MFH program enrollment: (1) alignment of right caregiver, right home, and right Veteran; (2) care practices that support caregiver, Veteran, and home-based primary care (HBPC); and (3) workplace practices and processes that demonstrate support of the MFH coordinator role by facility leadership and the HBPC team.

Citing Articles

Who Receives Care in VA Medical Foster Homes?.

Magid K, Manheim C, Haverhals L, Thomas K, Saliba D, Levy C Fed Pract. 2021; 38(3):102-109.

PMID: 33859461 PMC: 8040958. DOI: 10.12788/fp.0102.

The Veterans Health Administration's Medical Foster Home Program: Where Heroes Meet (Older) Angels.

Levy C, Haverhals L, Gilman C, Manheim C Generations. 2019; 43(3):47-50.

PMID: 31660003 PMC: 6816278.

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