SOLICITATION NOTICE
Q -- Advisory Board
- Notice Date
- 4/5/2007
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- NAICS
- 561320
— Temporary Help Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Veterans Affairs;Atlanta VA Medical Center;1670 Clairmont Road;Decatur GA 30033
- ZIP Code
- 30033
- Solicitation Number
- VA-247-07-RQ-0062
- Response Due
- 4/16/2007
- Archive Date
- 4/26/2007
- Description
- VAMC Augusta intends to award a sole source contract to "The Advisory Board Company", 2445 Main Street, Washington DC 20057, for comprehensive analysis of VAMC Augusta's Acute Care flow in order to provide implementation plan to identify and improve flow from clinics, and to provide analysis of the impact of these changes, at a cost not to exceed SAT. Those parties who think they can provide the below level of service under the SAT can contact Rob Joshua at (404) 728-4825, (404) 728-7758 Fax. The VAMC Augusta is a two division Medical Center that provides tertiary care in medicine, surgery, neurology, psychiatry, rehabilitation medicine, and spinal cord injury. The Downtown Division is authorized 155 beds (58 medicine, 37 surgery, and 60 spinal cord injury). The Uptown Division. Located approximately three miles away, is authorized 285 beds (68 psychiatry, 60 domiciliary, 15 blind rehabilitation, and a 142 bed Restorative Care Center comprised of 102 nursing home beds and 40 rehabilitation beds. The Medical Center enjoys a strong affiliation with the Medical College of Georgia. The VAMC Augusta provides medical and allied health training to an average of more than 1000 students and residents annually. Through the Joint Venture for Shared Services agreement with Eisenhower Army Medical Center at Fort Gordon, Army surgeons perform neurosurgery at the Augusta VAMC for both VA patients and DOD beneficiaries. In addition Cardio-Thoracic surgery is performed at Eisenhower Army Medical Center for VA and DOD patients by Army Surgeons. The VAMC Augusta supports a Congressionally approved Community Based Outpatient Clinic in Athens, Georgia and has special programs in Agent Orange, Ambulatory Surgery, Audiology, Blind Rehabilitation, Cardiac Catheterization, Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation, Day Treatment, Domiciliary, Home Based Primary Care, Homeless Chronically Mentally Ill, Hospice Long-term Psychiatric Care, Magnetic Resonance Imagining, Mental Health intensive Case Management, Neurosurgery, Open Heart Surgery, Persian Gulf Registry, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Pulmonary Function Lab, Respiratory Therapy, Respite Care, Restorative Nursing Home Care, SCI Hospital based Home Care, Sleep Laboratory Program, Social Model for Alzheimer's Disease, Speech Pathology, Spinal Cord Injury, Stroke Rehabilitation, Substance Abuse Treatment, Vocational Rehabilitation, and a Women's health Clinic. The VAMC Augusta provided 312,550 outpatient visits and 6730 inpatient episodes of care in 2006. There were 6517 hospital discharges in 2006 and healthcare was provided to 35,040 unique patients. The VAMC Augusta acute care facility's medicine, surgery and critical care inpatient bed section and the procedures required by patients in those beds are the specific focus of this study. Average daily census in those areas is: Medicine 46 Surgery 23 Critical Care 12.1 Psychiatry 54 Blind Rehab 14 Nursing Home 109 Spinal Cord Inj. 50 Domiciliary 52 The Contractor is required to analyze the patient flow from presentation and admission to the time of discharge. Specific initiatives would include but are not limited to the following: insure appropriate admissions, increase inpatient capacity throughout, mobilize proactive discharge planning activities, facilitate Complex discharges and increase bed status awareness. The contractor would be expected to evaluate performance relative to demonstrated best practices, provide educational workshops and map current practices, identify improvement opportunities, select best practices to implement, create work plans, implementation teams, and practice launches. Additionally, the contractor is required to analyze the patient flow through acute inpatient stay in medicine and surgery including utilization of supporting diagnostic and treatment procedures, compile and provide a report stating results of analysis, and identify and recommend flow improvements, with the ultimate result of decreased length of stay as well as fewer bed days of care paid to other community facilities as a result of VAMC Augusta bed unavailability. The particular issues to be included and addressed by this study and plan include backlogs in MRI's, CT'S, Echocardiograms, ultrasounds, stress tests, and general surgery, especially cardiac surgery and right sizing telemetry and CCU bed capacity. Assuming Contractor recommended flow improvements are implemented, successful completion of this contract is expected to result in same day service for the listed procedures for inpatients, same week availability for outpatients, a reduction to <5% Operating Room delays due to lack of CCU bed availability, and a 50% reduction in the number of bed days of care paid to other community facilities. In addition, the contractor is requested to review and ensure in its analysis and corresponding proposal that The Joint Commission leadership standard 3.15 and its subset requirements are met for VAMC, Augusta. The following work products shall be provided by the contractor CLIN 1: A Draft comprehensive analysis of VAMC Augusta, GA acute care flow from time of presentation to discharge with identification of opportunities to maximize capacity through maximization of throughput. The draft report shall be provided within the (2) months of commencement of work by the contractor. VAMC Augusta, GA will provide comments within two weeks of receiving the draft report. VAMC Augusta, GA comments will be addressed by the contractor and incorporated, if required, into the final draft. A final report within two weeks of receiving VAMC Augusta, GA comments on draft report. An oral presentation on site at VAMC Augusta, GA within three weeks of the final report. CLIN 2: A Draft implementation plan to apply identified flow improvements in the analysis report. The draft implementation plan shall be provided four (4) months from the commencement of work, VAMC Augusta, GA will provide comments within two weeks of receiving the draft implementation plan. VAMC Augusta, GA comments will be addressed by the contractor and incorporated, if required, into the draft plan. The draft shall include a proposed timeline. A final implementation plan within two weeks of receiving VAMC Augusta, GA comments on draft report. An oral presentation on site at VAMC Augusta, GA, no later than three weeks after implementation plan finalized. Educational workshops CLIN 3: A series of three (3) reports with data demonstrating the impact of changes made. These shall be provided six (6) months, nine (9) months and twelve (12) months from the commencement of work.
- Web Link
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robelto.joshua@va.gov
(http://www2.fbo.gov/spg/VA/AtlVAMC/VAMCCO80220/VA%2D247%2D07%2DRQ%2D0062/robelto.joshua@va.gov)
- Place of Performance
- Address: 1 Freedom Way;Augusta, GA 30904
- Zip Code: 30904
- Country: USA
- Zip Code: 30904
- Record
- SN01267074-W 20070407/070405220621 (fbodaily.com)
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