A Message to Our Stakeholders - North Florida/South Georgia Veterans Health System
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A Message to Our Stakeholders

VISN 8 Network Director Nevin Weaver

Nevin Weaver, Director, VA Sunshine Healthcare Network - VISN 8.

Friday, February 17, 2012

It’s been a terrific year for VISN 8, the nation’s largest VA healthcare network, serving 1.6 million Veterans in Florida, South Georgia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. But terrific years don’t just happen. Our care providers, volunteers, and staff work incredibly hard to honor the service and sacrifice of our Veterans.

We continue to provide health care for Veterans that is trustworthy, accessible, and innovative.  Our service is guided by four values you will see reflected throughout the pages of our 2011 Annual Report to the Community: 

Integrity: We advanced the health of our Veterans with leading edge research programs and focused on enhancing their comfort with a new hospice center in Miami and a 226-bed tower in Gainesville.

Commitment: We led the nation in women’s prosthetic care, won an award for innovation in our Lake City, Florida Community Living Center and completed long-awaited improvements, such as a new parking garage in Tampa.

Advocacy: We improved access to care with advances in telehealth, expanded our capacity to serve homeless Vets, and opened three new rural care clinics in St. John, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico.

Respect: We put patient health, safety and comfort first with initiatives to lower noise levels in our hospitals. We recognized the creativity and commitment of our nurses and other professionals. And our volunteers logged nearly one million hours serving our Veterans.

Excellence: We opened state-of-the-art cancer diagnosis and treatment centers, a new cardiac catherization lab, and received several awards for the excellence and quality of our care.

Take a few minutes to browse through the VISN 8 Annual Report and take note of the great things happening at your VA medical center or clinic.  You have my promise that we’ll work even harder to make 2012 an even greater success.   

 

Nevin M. Weaver, FACHE
Director
VA Sunshine Healthcare Network – VISN 8

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