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  title info:
    title: Military disability system
    sub title: increased supports for servicemembers and better pilot planning could improve the disability evaluation process : report to congressional requesters
  title info:
    title: Increased supports for servicemembers and better pilot planning could improve the disability evaluation process
  name:
    name part: Bertoni, Daniel.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: ProQuest (Firm)
  name:
    name part: United States
    name part: Government Accountability Office.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: dcu
    date issued: 2008
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    reformatting quality: preservation
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource.
  abstract: In February 2007, a series of articles in The Washington Post about conditions at Walter Reed Army Medical Center highlighted problems in the military's disability evaluation system. Subsequently, the Department of the Army, Department of Defense (DOD), and Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) undertook initiatives to address concerns with the disability evaluation process. In 2007, the Army took steps to streamline its process, and DOD and VA began piloting a joint evaluation system to address systemic concerns about timeliness and the potential inefficiency of having separate disability evaluation systems. GAO was asked to examine (1) recent actions by the Army to help servicemembers navigate its disability evaluation process and (2) the status, plans, and challenges of DOD and VA's efforts to pilot and implement a joint disability evaluation system. GAO interviewed Army, DOD, and VA officials; visited Army treatment facilities; and reviewed data from these sources. The Army has taken a number of steps to help servicemembers navigate the disability evaluation process through additional support mechanisms and streamlining efforts, but faces challenges in meeting internal goals and demonstrating impact. Most significantly, the Army has begun hiring more staff to facilitate the process for servicemembers, such as legal personnel, and setting staffing goals for key positions, such as for board liaisons and physicians. However, the Army has not met its internal staffing goals for board liaisons and physicians, and continues to face shortages in legal personnel. The Army has also struggled to meet timeliness goals for case processing and has even experienced negative trends over the last year, despite streamlining initiatives. Furthermore, the Army faces particular challenges in meeting timeliness goals for completing reservists' evaluations, due in part to the challenge of obtaining complete personnel and medical documents from nonmilitary sources. Besides staffing.
  abstract: Implementing large-scale system changes--such as those envisioned by the pilot. These challenges include sustaining management attention to ensure that the changes are implemented well and are producing the intended results. However, the Senior Oversight Committee's planned January 2009 end raises questions about whether management attention will be maintained over the long term.
  note: [GAO contact, Daniel Bertoni].
  note: Record is based on bibliographic data in ProQuest U.S. Congressional Research Digital Collection. Reuse except for individual research requires license from ProQuest, LLC.
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Also available via the Internet from the GAO website. Address as of 10/27/2008: http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d081137.pdf.
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: United States.
      name part: Department of Defense
    genre: Rules and practice
  subject:
    topic: Disability evaluation
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: Armed Forces
    topic: Medical care
  classification: GA 1.13:GAO-08-1137
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Military disability system
    identifier: (OCoLC)264802417
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Military disability system
    origin info:
      publisher: [Bethesda, Md.] : ProQuest,[2004]
    identifier: CIS 2008 J942-533
    identifier: (ProQuest)cis200802396
  related item:
    title info:
      title: U.S. Congressional Research
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  record info:
    record content source: ProQuest
    record creation date: 110210
    record change date: 20260430195643.3
    record identifier: in00003342032