VA Fellowship

February 8, 2013

Dear Department Chair/Program Director,

I am pleased to announce that the VA Desert Pacific Healthcare Network will be accepting an administrative fellow for 2013.

VA Desert Pacific Healthcare is a fully-integrated, comprehensive health care network committed to honoring America’s Veterans by providing a full continuum of high quality services.  The Network is comprised of five health care systems: VA Greater Los Angeles, VA Loma Linda, VA San Diego, VA Long Beach, and VA Southern Nevada.

The Department of Veterans Affairs’ Healthcare System is the premier provider of care in America today offering an outstanding learning environment for the fellow.  Over the past decade, VA health care has been highlighted as “The Best Care Anywhere” and touted for its electronic health record system.  VA’s Million Veteran Program is creating a genomic database for research to facilitate disease prevention, personalized therapies, and population surveillance. Additionally, twenty VA medical centers from across the Nation, including VA Long Beach and VA Loma Linda Healthcare Systems, were recognized as Top Performers on Key Quality Measures for 2011 by the Joint Commission.

During the experience, the fellow will work primarily from the network office of the Desert Pacific Healthcare Network, located in Long Beach, California, but will rotate through various departments of the five medical centers located within the Network. The fellow will also have opportunities to complete rotations through other components of the health system offering access to academically-affiliated medical centers, community-based outpatient clinics, ambulatory surgical centers, domiciliaries, long-term care services, electronic health record system, research centers, telehealth programs, and external rotations such as Veterans Benefits Administration, or a neighboring non-VA health care facility. After completing these rotations, the fellow will complete a diverse range of management tasks and projects in the fellow’s areas of interest, as well as in areas of the organization’s needs.

Throughout their term, the fellow will report to the Network Director and the Deputy Network Director. The mentoring experience our program offers is a meaningful professional relationship with experienced senior leaders and guidance in gaining the knowledge and skills essential to the fellow successfully developing his or her own management and leadership style.

The one year program will begin no sooner than May 1, 2013, though the actual start date is negotiable. Applicants must be a U.S. citizen and provide a copy of his or her resume, two letters of recommendation— one from the applicant's department chair/program director, and a copy of his or her graduate transcripts. Interested candidates should apply online by March 1, 2013 through the following site:https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/333873300. Please do not mail applications to our office address.

More information about the VA Desert Pacific Healthcare Network may be found on www.desertpacific.va.gov. If you or your students have any questions, please feel free to contact Lindsey Smith (lindsey.smith@va.gov), Administrative Fellow or Ada Clark (ada.clark@va.gov), Health System Specialist, by email or phone at (562) 826-5963.

Sincerely,

Stan Johnson, MHA, FACHE

Director, VA Desert Pacific Healthcare System