About HAP
The mission of the VHA National Center for Healthcare Advancement and Partnerships is to ensure partnerships and health care advancements support Veterans, their families, caregivers, and survivors across social determinants of health.
Public-private partnerships
VHA is committed to pursuing public-private partnerships (P3s) and exploring new and innovative ways to support VA’s mission. To meet large scale and complex challenges requiring cross-sector solutions and collaboration, VHA engages in P3s that leverage the full range of our Nation’s talent, ingenuity, and commitment to action. These partnerships further the VA’s mission and priorities, build capacity, and create platforms for sharing resources to better serve Veterans, their families, caregivers, survivors, and other beneficiaries. Enhancing community partnerships is an important component of VHA’s strategic direction. Partnerships facilitated by HAP support VHA’s commitment to providing excellent customer service, restoring public trust, and delivering personalized, proactive, patient-driven health care.
Strategic goals and objectives 2022–2027
I-CARE (Integrity, Commitment, Advocacy, Respect, and Excellence)
- HAP serves as a trusted resource and expert on community partnerships for internal and external stakeholders.
- Provide consultative services and resources to facilitate partnerships that deliver quality benefits, care, and accessible services across social determinants of health
- Provide programmatic oversight of partnerships through engagement, education and policy at the VHA level
- HAP serves as a catalyst for the growth of effective non-monetary partnerships at the national, state, and community level.
- Increase awareness of partnership opportunities to address Veterans' needs
- Promote dissemination of best practices at the national, state, and community level through employee engagement
- HAP advances the health and wellbeing of Veterans through exploration of innovative, safe, and ethical emerging therapies.
- Collaborate to enhance access to services and innovation across clinical priorities
- Facilitate partnerships to support healthcare advancement initiative (HAI) development resulting in direct Veteran Impact
More information for VHA staff
VHA staff can find out more about HAP, including our consultative services for establishing a partnership, on our internal website (This is available on the intranet only. If you have intranet access copy and paste this URL into your browser: https://vaww.oce.med.va.gov/).
