Turning Feedback into Action: A Lesson in Improving and Sustaining Excellence in Veteran Care and Service

The challenge placed before the Martinsburg VAMC primary care leadership team was to identify targeted and effective ways to improve and sustain key Veteran experience performance metrics that feed into the VA’s national performance measurement system or S.A.I.L. (Strategic Analytics for Improvement and Learning Value).
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