Implementation of Women's Health Patient Aligned Care Teams

Structured, in-person stakeholder panel meeting of VA network, VA medical center, and primary care and women's health leaders using modified Delphi panel techniques to come to consensus on a quality improvement (QI) roadmap within each participating VA network, followed by intermittent progress reporting and post-24 months in-person capstone stakeholder panel meetings

Initial in-person and ongoing virtual team training in QI principles, methods, and project proposal development and refinement

Research team provided technical review of and feedback on local QI project proposals, helped develop and/or recommend process/outcome measures, identified and shared relevant published literature (e.g., measures, interventions), and provided general technical support (e.g., how to analyze local data, how to conduct a local focus group)

Research team provided aggregated all-site and local data from baseline patient and provider/staff surveys, 12-month patient surveys, and other data and findings to local teams for ongoing and new QI project idea development

Within and across site calls with local teams to review progress, identify needs, help solve problems, discuss current and new projects, as well as potential for spread

VA Handbooks on policy and practice for PACT implementation guidance and on delivery of comprehensive women's health services disseminated to all VA facilities