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Shteyler VM, Luo Y, Kuo AC, Iannuzzi JC, Whooley MA. Community-Based Surgery and Postoperative Survival Among Veterans Affairs Enrollees. JAMA Network Open. 2026 Aug 3; 9(8):e2628167, DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2026.28167.
Hirsch B, Campbell ME, Schaefer JR, Baldomero AK, Melzer AC. Improving community care lung cancer screening by implementation of centralized support: a quality improvement initiative. Annals of the American Thoracic Society. 2026 Jun 1; 23(6):973-982, DOI: 10.1093/annalsats/aaoag014.
Shekelle PG, Burke RE, Apaydin EA, Begashaw MM, Wray CM. Quality of hospital medicine care in Veterans Affairs hospitals versus non-Veterans Affairs hospitals: A systematic review of comparative studies. Journal of hospital medicine. 2026 Jul 1; 21(7):792-800, DOI: 10.1002/jhm.70351.
Narla R, McCoy K, Mengeling MA, Davila H, Wysham K, Miller K, Solimeo SL. Who receives DXA in VHA direct care vs. community care? Insights into bone health care for veterans. Osteoporosis international : a journal established as result of cooperation between the European Foundation for Osteoporosis and the National Osteoporosis Foundation of the USA. 2026 Apr 1; 37(4):991-997, DOI: 10.1007/s00198-026-08025-2.
Chen PV, Walsh J, Smith AH, Eck CS, Caloudas AB, Plasencia M, Kanzler KE, Grubbs KM. "Hit or Miss": Rural Veterans' Experiences Receiving Community Mental Health Care. The Journal of rural health : official journal of the American Rural Health Association and the National Rural Health Care Association. 2026 Mar 1; 42(2):e70151, DOI: 10.1111/jrh.70151.
Rosen AK, Beilstein-Wedel E, Gurewich D, Davila H, Shwartz M. Examining Differences in Wait Times for Primary Care in the Veterans Health Administration (VA) by Race and Ethnicity: What Role Do Within-facility and Between-facility Differences Play? Medical care. 2026 Jan 5 DOI: 10.1097/MLR.0000000000002279.
Shen YJ, Thorsness R, Pizer SD. Does Fee-For-Service Payment Increase Visits and Improve Quality among Veterans with Heart Failure? A Retrospective Cohort Analysis. Journal of general internal medicine. 2025 Dec 16 DOI: 10.1007/s11606-025-10084-w.
Kalvesmaki AF, Blok AC, Dodge JR. Integrating Families Into Veteran Care: A Call to Action for Holistic Support Systems. Military medicine. 2025 Nov 1; 190(Suppl 3):27-30, DOI: 10.1093/milmed/usaf395.
Syed AS, Wikiel KJ, Cotton JL, Jones EL. Quality of bariatric surgery at Veterans Affairs versus community care hospitals. Surgical endoscopy. 2025 Sep 15 DOI: 10.1007/s00464-025-12148-8.
Jaske E, Wheat CL, McCann R, Nelson K, Wahlberg L, Felker B. Associations Between VHA Clinical Resource Hubs Delivering Telemental Health Services. Telemedicine journal and e-health : the official journal of the American Telemedicine Association. 2025 Dec 1; 31(12):1489-1496, DOI: 10.1177/15305627251376953.
Waldo SW, Glorioso TJ, Butala N, Varosy P, Duvernoy CS, Plomondon ME, Francis J. Management and Outcomes of Patients Undergoing Cardiovascular Evaluation Across Health Care Systems: Comparison of Community Care and Integrated Veterans Affairs Health Care. Journal of the American Heart Association. 2025 Aug 5; 14(15):e041930, DOI: 10.1161/JAHA.125.041930.
Buys MJ, Anderson Z, Bayless K, Zhang C, Presson AP, Hales J, Brooke BS. Postsurgical opioid prescribing among veterans using community care for orthopedic surgery at non-VA hospitals compared to a VA hospital with a transitional pain service: a retrospective cohort study. Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine. 2025 Jul 4; 50(7):531-537, DOI: 10.1136/rapm-2023-105162.
Dismuke-Greer CE, Almeida E, Ryan JL, Nakase-Richardson R. Department of Defense Military Treatment Facility and Community Care Costs After Traumatic Brain Injury in Service Members and Veterans Treated in Veterans Affairs Polytrauma Rehabilitation Centers: A VA TBI Model Systems Study. The Journal of head trauma rehabilitation. 2025 Jul 1; 40(4):E300-E307, DOI: 10.1097/HTR.0000000000001028.
Mog AC, Young JP, Mamkhezri JH, Merkel C, Gray KE. A Qualitative Assessment of Pelvic Floor Physical Therapy Experiences for Women Veterans in VHA Care. Journal of general internal medicine. 2025 Aug 1; 40(11):2563-2572, DOI: 10.1007/s11606-025-09645-w.
Dizon MP, Asch SM, Wagner TH. Are Rates of Skin Procedures Higher in Veterans Health Administrations Purchased Care Than Veterans Health Administrations Delivered Care? Medical care. 2025 Aug 1; 63(8):555-562, DOI: 10.1097/MLR.0000000000002151.
Asfaw DA, Gordon SH, Kyle MA, Griffith KN. Clocking Injustice: Racial Disparities in Specialty Wait Times. Health services research. 2025 Oct 1; 60(5):e14621, DOI: 10.1111/1475-6773.14621.
Savoy A, Weaver FM, Patel H, Taylor A, Govier DJ, Hynes DM. Barriers and Facilitators to Cross-Institutional Referrals: System Configuration Analysis of VA Staff Experiences. Journal of general internal medicine. 2025 Jun 1; 40(8):1888-1899, DOI: 10.1007/s11606-025-09450-5.
Almklov E, Lee MW, Gault JD, Blanco BH, Huynh B, Angkaw A, Doran N, Afari N, Pittman JOE. Mixed method study of feasibility and acceptability of electronic screening for measurement-based symptom monitoring of veterans accessing mental health treatment in VA community care program settings. BMC health services research. 2025 Jan 3; 25(1):10, DOI: 10.1186/s12913-024-12029-1.
Vashi AA, Wong EP, Egelfeld JR, Asch SM, Nevedal AL. Why Veterans Choose VA Versus non-VA Emergency Care: A Qualitative Study. Military medicine. 2024 Nov 5; 189(11-12):e2655-e2664, DOI: 10.1093/milmed/usae259.
Benson SK, Pleasure ZH, Guillory A, Gill SK, Gray KE. Women's Health Care Delivery and Coordination After Transitioning From One Electronic Health Record to Another: Perspectives From Staff in the Veterans Health Administration. Women's health issues : official publication of the Jacobs Institute of Women's Health. 2024 Oct 12; 35(1):54-60, DOI: 10.1016/j.whi.2024.09.002.
Scorsone KL, Frank JW. Exploring Veterans' Experiences Accessing Chronic Pain Treatment in the VA Community Care Network. Journal of general internal medicine. 2024 Dec 1; 39(16):3190-3195, DOI: 10.1007/s11606-024-09023-y.
Yoon J, Chow A, Jiang H, Wong E, Chang ET. Comparing Quality, Costs, and Outcomes of VA and Community Primary Care for Patients with Diabetes. Journal of general internal medicine. 2025 Feb 1; 40(3):647-653, DOI: 10.1007/s11606-024-08968-4.
Eck CS, Ho V, Jiang C, Petersen LA. Determinants of referral network size for screening colonoscopies in the Veterans Health Administration after the implementation of the MISSION Act. Health services research. 2024 Feb 1; 59(1):e14239.
Gettel CJ, Hastings SN, Biese KJ, Goldberg EM. Emergency Department-to-Community Transitions of Care: Best Practices for the Older Adult Population. Clinics in geriatric medicine. 2023 Nov 1; 39(4):659-672.
Tenso K, Pizer S, Palani S. Delivery system emergency department capacity and its effect on nonsystem service utilization. Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine. 2023 Apr 1; 30(4):359-367.
Palani S, Garrido MM, Tenso K, Pizer SD. Community care emergency room use and specialty care leakage from Veterans Health Administration hospitals. Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine. 2023 Apr 1; 30(4):379-387.
Mull HJ, Kabdiyeva A, Ndugga N, Gordon SH, Garrido MM, Pizer SD. What is the role of selection bias in quality comparisons between the Veterans Health Administration and community care? Example of elective hernia surgery. Health services research. 2023 Jun 1; 58(3):654-662.
Itani KMF, Rosen AK. Association of Expanded Health Care Options for Community Care With Veterans' Surgical Outcomes. JAMA surgery. 2022 Dec 1; 157(12):1123-1124.
McConnell ES, Xue TM, Levy CR. Veterans Health Administration Models of Community-Based Long-Term Care: State of the Science. Journal of The American Medical Directors Association. 2022 Dec 1; 23(12):1900-1908.e7.
Wachterman MW, Corneau EE, O'Hare AM, Keating NL, M or V. Association of Hospice Payer With Concurrent Receipt of Hospice and Dialysis Among US Veterans With End-stage Kidney Disease: A Retrospective Analysis of a National Cohort. JAMA health forum. 2022 Oct 7; 3(10):e223708.
Siddiqui S, Skemp L, Burkhart L. Provider perspectives of community-acquired pressure injury prevention in veterans with spinal cord injury. The journal of spinal cord medicine. 2022 Jul 7; 1-13.
Fortney JC, Carey EP, Rajan S, Rise PJ, Gunzburger EC, Felker BL. A comparison of patient-reported mental health outcomes for the Department of Veterans Affairs' regional telehealth and Community Care Programs. Health services research. 2022 Aug 1; 57(4):755-763.
O'Mahen PN, Peterse n LA. Possible Effects on VA Outpatient Care of Expanding Medicaid: Implications of Having Access to Overlapping Publicly Funded Health Care Services. Military medicine. 2022 May 3; 187(5-6):e735-e741.
Pizer SD, Utech A. Innovations in Community Care: Briefing before the Assistant Under Secretary for Health, Caroline Clancy, and Roshni Ghosh, Executive Director of the Center for Care and Payment Innovation; 2022 Feb 22; Virtual.
Pizer SD, Stoesen C, and other representatives of CSO . , Jhu E. Productivity, Community Care and FY23 budget projections: Briefing before the VHA Executive in Charge, Dr. Richard Stone and Dr Steve Lieberman, Acting DUSH, as well as other VHA leaders; 2021 Jul 12; Virtual briefing.
Howren MB, Kazmerzak D, Pruin S, Barbaris W, Abrams TE. Behavioral Health Screening and Care Coordination for Rural Veterans in a Federally Qualified Health Center. The journal of behavioral health services & research. 2022 Jan 1; 49(1):50-60.
Waldo SW, Glorioso TJ, Barón AE, Plomondon ME, Valle JA, Schofield R, Ho PM. Outcomes Among Patients Undergoing Elective Percutaneous Coronary Intervention at Veterans Affairs and Community Care Hospitals. Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 2020 Sep 1; 76(9):1112-1116.
Miller C, Gurewich D, Garvin L, Pugatch M, Koppelman E, Pendergast J, Harrington K, Clark JA. Veterans Affairs and Rural Community Providers' Perspectives on Interorganizational Care Coordination: A Qualitative Analysis. The Journal of rural health : official journal of the American Rural Health Association and the National Rural Health Care Association. 2021 Mar 1; 37(2):417-425.
Pollack HA, Humphreys KN. Reducing violent incidents between police officers and people with psychiatric and/or substance use disorders. The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. 2020 Jan 1; 687(1):166-184.
Pizer SD, Garrido MM, Ndugga N, Griffith KN, Mull HJ, Kabdiyeva A, Gordon SH, Lowenstein R. PEPReC Work to Predict Community Care Spending: Briefing before the Office of Community Care (Dr. Kameron Matthews, DUSH, Dr. Clinton Greenstone, Deputy Executive Director for Clinical Integrity, Dr. Mark Upton, ADUSH for Community Care; Dr. Elizabeth Brill, Chief Medical Officer); 2019 Dec 16; Telephone Briefing.
Kelley AT, Greenstone CL, Kirsh SR. Defining Access and the Role of Community Care in the Veterans Health Administration. Journal of general internal medicine. 2020 May 1; 35(5):1584-1585.
Kullgren JT, Fagerlin A, Kerr EA. Completing the MISSION: a Blueprint for Helping Veterans Make the Most of New Choices. Journal of general internal medicine. 2020 May 1; 35(5):1567-1570.
Adams MA, Sayre GG, Saini SD. The VA MISSION Act and Community Care for Veterans: What Every Community GI Doc Needs to Know. The American journal of gastroenterology. 2019 Aug 1; 114(8):1189-1191.
Izquierdo A, Ong M, Jones F, Jones L, Ganz D, Rubenstein L. Engaging African American Veterans with Health Care Access Challenges in a Community Partnered Care Coordination Initiative: A Qualitative Needs Assessment. Ethnicity & disease. 2018 Sep 6; 28(Suppl 2):475-484.
Gawron L, Pettey WBP, Redd A, Suo Y, Turok DK, Gundlapalli AV. The "Safety Net" of Community Care: Leveraging GIS to Identify Geographic Access Barriers to Texas Family Planning Clinics for Homeless Women Veterans. AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium. 2018 Apr 16; 2017:750-759.
Holman E, Levy C, Kennedy B. Palliative Care Matters: Lessons From the Loss of a Facility Dog. The American journal of hospice & palliative care. 2018 Oct 1; 35(10):1362-1364.
Quinn M, Robinson C, Forman J, Krein SL, Rosland AM. Survey Instruments to Assess Patient Experiences With Access and Coordination Across Health Care Settings: Available and Needed Measures. Medical care. 2017 Jul 1; 55 Suppl 7 Suppl 1:S84-S91.
Frayne SM, Phibbs CS, Berg E, Friedman SA, Yano EM, Washington DL, Saechao FS, Finlay AK, Hoggatt K, Hamilton AB. One foot in the door and one foot out: Attrition among women community care users who have recently joined the VA. VA National Meeting: Examining the New Landscape of Care in the Community for Veterans. Paper presented at: VA HSR&D Field-Based Examining the New Landscape of Care in the Community for Veterans Meeting; 2016 Aug 8; Arlington, VA.
Weber SR, Pirraglia PA, Kunik ME. Use of services by community-dwelling patients with dementia: a systematic review. American journal of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias. 2011 May 1; 26(3):195-204.
Desai MM, Rosenheck RA. Unmet need for medical care among homeless adults with serious mental illness. General hospital psychiatry. 2005 Nov 1; 27(6):418-25.
Timko C, Sempel JM. Short-term outcomes of matching dual diagnosis patients' symptom severity to treatment intensity. Journal of substance abuse treatment. 2004 Apr 1; 26(3):209-18.
Conrad KJ, Mahableshwarkar A, Lutz G. Money Management for Mental Illness: The Missing Leg on the Table of Community Care. Federal Practitioner. 2003 Sep 1; 20(9): 32-54.
Guihan ML, Erdman J, Munroe D. Update: Assisted Living Models for Low and Moderate Income Older Persons in Illinois. Paper presented at: American Society on Aging Annual Conference; 2000 Mar 1; San Diego, CA.
Guihan ML, Munroe D, Hynes D, Edelman P, Clark K, Miskevics S. Assisted Living Services in Illinois: Preliminary Data from the Community Based Residential Facility Demonstration Project. Paper presented at: Addiction Health Services Research Conference; 1999 Jun 1; Chicago, IL.
Mares A, McGuire J. Recidivism among Veterans with Schizophrenia Living in Board and Care: An Outcome Evaluation of the Community Residential Care Program. Paper presented at: VA HSR&D National Meeting; 1999 Feb 24; Washington, DC.