Hospice-Veteran Partnership Toolkit : About the Hospice-Veteran Partnership Program : 4. Conducting a Needs Assesment

In deciding how to focus the efforts of your Hospice-Veteran Partnership (HVP), it is helpful to understand the status of relations among key stakeholders in your area. This section of the toolkit can help you conduct a survey of VA facilities and community hospice agencies. You may wish to develop additional questionnaires for other types of partners such as state veterans homes, community nursing homes, and military hospitals.

Checklist for Conducting a Needs Assessment

Draft separate questionnaires for different types of partners.
Prepare a letter that explains the HVP program, asks stakeholders to complete the questionnaires, and requests copies of existing agreements between community hospices and VA facilities.
Distribute the letter and questionnaires to partners and potential HVP members in your area.
Compile and analyze the responses.
Draft a report summarizing your conclusions.
Share the report with members of the HVP.

You can download Chapter 4 of the HVP Toolkit as a Microsoft Word file.

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Sample Letter to Potential Participants
Sample Questionnaire for Community Hospices
Survey of Department of Veterans Affairs Facilities
Sample HVP Fact Sheet
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This toolkit is provided by the Department of Veterans Affairs National Hospice-Veteran Partnership (HVP) Program. Development of the toolkit was made possible through support by Rallying Points, the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization, the Center for Advanced Illness Coordinated Care, and other end-of-life care advocates. Information about VAHPC initiatives is made available for use within the Inter-Institutional Collaborating Network on End-of-life Care (IICN) with the assistance of Growth House, Inc.