QUESTION 4:

Basis for reduction of 100 beds at the hospital being constructed at Loma Linda, and accompanying demographic study, if made.

ANSWER:

The reduction in the bed capacity at Loma Linda is consistent
with the overall reduction in census of the Veterans Administration
hospitals resulting from increased turnover rates. A revised
demographic study for the Southern California area has not been
made. However, experience at our new hospital in San Diego, as
well as the other hospitals in Southern California, indicates that
hospitalization needs of veterans are being met with substantially
less beds than anticipated five years ago. To avoid building in
excess of requirements, the proposed capacity at Loma Linda was
reduced by one complete nursing unit for each of the following
services: medicine, psychiatry, and nursing home care.

QUESTION 5:

Estimate of the costs of new and impending affiliations for fiscal year 1974, including a breakdown of staffing needs and funding needs in terms of patient care, education, and research.

ANSWER:

Potential affiliations are now under consideration at 19 stations, a listing of which is attached. Inasmuch as it is uncertain as to which of these will become operative during FY 1974, and since the staffing and funding needs relating to patient care, education and research are affected not only by the type of medical school involved, but also by the ability to make the education and research programs operative, it is impossible to provide any precise breakdown of costs.

QUESTION 8:

Estimated costs of adding appropriate separate research space at the Wadsworth Hospital being constructed?

ANSWER:

Current plans for research space at the Wadsworth Hospital contemplate two separate construction phases: the first involves altering existing space in Building 304 to provide 40,000 net square feet of research space at an estimated cost of $4,500,000 once the new hospital is constructed; the second phase phans an additional building to provide 80,000 net square feet of research space at an estimated cost of $22,216,400 including costs of technical services, escalation, etc.

QUESTION 9:

With relation to VA programs in prevention, treatment and rehabilitation of drug abuse:

a.

The numbers of patients receiving treatment for opiate and opiate derivative addiction under each of the following therapies:

Methadone

Abstinence

Other (please specify for each other method)

b. The average costs and duration of treatment associated with each therapy modality for non-opiate users as well.

C. Amount budgeted and being spent in fiscal year 1973
and amount budgeted for fiscal year 1974 for rehabilitation
(including education, training, planning, psychological
counselling, vocational counselling, and job placement)
for each drug abuse patient.

d. Copies of summaries of workload trends in the VA
drug program.

ANSWER:

With relation to VA programs in prevention, treatment and rehabilitation of drug abuse:

a. The number of patients receiving treatment for addiction as of

February 28, 1973 under each of the following therapies is: