Welcome to the Public Health Strategic Health Care Group (PHSHG) website. The PHSHG
includes the AIDS Information Center, Public Health
Research & Consultation Service, Center for Quality
Management in Public Health, Hepatitis C Resource
Centers, HIV/Hepatitis C Clinical Program Office,
and the HIV/Hepatitis C Prevention, HIV/Hepatitis C
Training/Education and Smoke Free Programs. Ronald O. Valdiserri, M.D., M.P.H., Chief Consultant.
Our Mission
The mission of the PHSHG is to provide the highest
quality, comprehensive care to veterans and to have
that care recognized as the standard by which all health care in the
United States is measured. This includes patient care
activities, clinician and patient education, prevention activities, and
research directed at continuous improvement of medical and preventive
services and delivery of care to veterans.
The VA health care system is the largest integrated healthcare
system in the nation, providing approximately 780,000 acute hospital
admissions and over 35 million outpatient visits per year. VA
serves approximately 3.4 million unique individuals from a veteran
population of over 26 million veterans. VA is the largest single
provider of HIV care and hepatitis C care in the United States. In
FY2000, nearly 19,000 veterans received care for HIV disease in VA and
to date nearly 70,000 veterans who use VA health care services have
tested positive for hepatitis C.
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The Public Health Strategic Health Care Group is a part of the Office of Public Health and Environmental Hazards
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