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