Major Cost Savings Cited For VA Health Care.(Department of Veterans Affairs)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)

Food Institute Report, The, December, 2000

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) could save an estimated $79 million annually--about one-quarter of its inpatient food service expenditures--according to a newly-released report by the United States General Accounting Office. Opportunities for saving millions of dollars exists if VA implements systemwide three types of initiatives it has used in some of its VA inpatient health care locations: consolidating food production, employing Veterans Canteen Service (VCS) workers rather than Nutrition and Food Service (NFS) workers to provide inpatient food services, and competitive sourcing.

VA has already consolidated 28 food production locations into 10. These locations transport food to other inpatient locations, usually within 90 minutes' driving distance....

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