COIN Investigators & Staff
1 June 2021
COIN Investigators
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Leah M. Haverhals, PhD, MA
- Title: Health Research Scientist at Department of Veterans Affairs
- Contact: Leah.Haverhals@va.gov
- Location: Denver
- University of Colorado webpage
Recent Publications
2021
Magid KH, Solorzano N, Manheim C, Haverhals LM, Levy C. Social Support and Stressors among VA Medical Foster Home Caregivers. J Aging Soc Policy. 2021 May 28:1-21. doi: 10.1080/08959420.2021.1927619. Epub ahead of print.
PMID: 34047675.
Magid KH, Manheim C, Haverhals LM, Thomas KS, Saliba D, Levy C. (2021). Who Receives Care in VA Medical Foster Homes? Fed Pract. 2021;38(3):102-109. doi:10.12788/fp.0102.
Marshall V, Stryczek KC, Haverhals L, Young J, Au DH, Ho PM, Kaboli PJ, Kirsh S, Sayre G. The Focus They Deserve: Improving Women Veterans' Health Care Access. Womens Health Issues. 2021 Feb 10:S1049-3867(20)30157-2. doi: 10.1016/j.whi.2020.12.011. Epub ahead of print.
PMID: 33582001.
Manheim C, Haverhals L, Gilman C, Karuza J, Olsan T, Edwards S, Levy C, Gillespie S. VA Home Based Primary Care Teams: Partnering with and Acting as Caregivers for Veterans. Home Health Care Serv Q. 2021 Jan-Mar;40(1):1-15. doi: 10.1080/01621424.2020.1869634. Epub 2021 Jan 7. PMID: .
PMID: 33411588.
2020
Moldestad M, Stryczek KC, Haverhals L, Kenney R, Lee M, Ball S, Au D, Kirsh S, Sayre G, Young J. Competing Demands: Scheduling Challenges in Being Veteran-centric in the Setting of Health System Initiatives to Improve Access. Mil Med. 2020 Dec 8:usaa520. doi: 10.1093/milmed/usaa520. Epub ahead of print. PMID: .
PMID: 33289838.
Haverhals LM, Gilman C, Manheim C, Bauers C, Kononowech J, Levy C. Implementation of VA's Life-Sustaining Treatment Decisions Initiative: Facilitators and Barriers to Early Implementation Across Seven VA Medical Centers. J Pain Symptom Manage. 2020 Nov 3:S0885-3924(20)30863-0. doi: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2020.10.034. Epub ahead of print.
PMID: 33157178.
2019
Haverhals LM, Manheim C, Gilman C, Karuza J, Olsan T, Edwards ST, Levy CR, Gillespie SM. Dedicated to the Mission: Strategies US Department of Veterans Affairs Home-Based Primary Care Teams Apply to Keep Veterans at Home. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2019 Dec;67(12):2511-2518. doi: 10.1111/jgs.16171. Epub 2019 Oct 8.
PMID: 31593296.
2018
Gillespie SM, Manheim C, Gilman C, Karuza J, Olsan TH, Edwards ST, Levy CR, Haverhals L. Interdisciplinary Team Perspectives on Mental Health Care in VA Home-Based Primary Care: A Qualitative Study. Am J Geriatr Psychiatry. 2019 Feb;27(2):128-137. doi: 10.1016/j.jagp.2018.10.006. Epub 2018 Nov 2. PMID: 30424995.
Haverhals LM, Manheim CE, Mor V, Ersek M, Kinosian B, Lorenz KA, Faricy-Anderson KE, Gidwani-Marszowski RA, Levy C. The experience of providing hospice care concurrent with cancer treatment in the VA. Support Care Cancer. 2019 Apr;27(4):1263-1270. doi: 10.1007/s00520-018-4552-z. Epub 2018 Nov 22. PMID: 30467792; PMCID: PMC6391175.
Hale A, Haverhals LM, Manheim C, Levy C. Vet Connect: A Quality Improvement Program to Provide Telehealth Subspecialty Care for Veterans Residing in VA-Contracted Community Nursing Homes. Geriatrics (Basel). 2018 Sep 5;3(3):57. doi: 10.3390/geriatrics3030057. PMID: 31011094; PMCID: PMC6319220.
Levy C, Haverhals L, Gilman C, Manheim C. The Veterans Health Administration's Medical Foster Home Program: Where Heroes Meet (Older) Angels. Generations. 2018 Sep;43(3):47-50. PMID: 31660003; PMCID: PMC6816278.
Stevenson L, Ball S, Haverhals LM, Aron DC, Lowery J. Evaluation of a national telemedicine initiative in the Veterans Health Administration: Factors associated with successful implementation. J Telemed Telecare. 2018 Apr;24(3):168-178. doi: 10.1177/1357633X16677676. Epub 2016 Nov 30. PMID: 27909208.
Gilman C, Haverhals L, Manheim C, Levy C. A qualitative exploration of veteran and family perspectives on medical foster homes. Home Health Care Serv Q. 2018 Jan-Mar;37(1):1-24. doi: 10.1080/01621424.2017.1419156. Epub 2018 Jan 2. PMID: 29261436.
Media (webinars, podcast, etc.)
What’s at the Core? Intro to the VA Qualitative Methods Learning Collaborative (QMLC) and scoping of Qualitative Cores-how they operate and what resources they offer
by Gemmae Fix, PhD ; Christine Kowalski, MPH ; Haverhals Leah, PhD, MA ; Jane Moeckli, PhD
Seminar date: 2/11/2021
Description: The Qualitative Methods Learning Collaborative (QMLC) is a new group formed in 2020 with the mission of advancing qualitative methods, building a community of qualitative researchers (VA and non-VA), and learning and teaching qualitative methods. There are over 250 members in this group. We will discuss the origins of the group, what we hope to accomplish, and review results from one of our first assessments—a scoping of national VA qualitative research cores/centers. We will present comparisons across those centers including details on how they operate and what resources they offer. One of the goals of the QMLC and this presentation is to share best practices and develop strategies for others interested in building their qualitative communities and expertise.
Grants & Awards
Grants
Assessing changes in delivery and utilization of telehealth between Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Centers and State Veterans' Nursing Homes due to the COVID-19 pandemic to inform future utilization, scalability, and adoption of telehealth modalities
Dr. Leah Haverhals has received funding from the VA Office of Connected care to study changes in delivery of VA telehealth to State Veterans’ Nursing Homes (SVHs) related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Dr. Haverhals has worked with Dr. Cari Levy on improving access to telehealth specialty care to Veterans in contracted community nursing homes as well as State Veterans’ Nursing Homes since 2017. This work involved developing a telehealth program called VetConnect that provided telehealth care to nursing home Veterans in geriatrics, palliative care, psychology, and psychiatry, among other specialties. Dr. Haverhals and Dr. Levy also evaluated the expansion of VA telehealth to SVHs in FY 2018 and 2019 across the VA system. This funding is an extension of that work to better describe how the pandemic affected delivery of VA telehealth to SVHs. This is of particular importance as the pandemic limited in-person medical visits and because many SVHs are in rural areas across the country. Further, more must be learned about increases and decreases in the provision of telehealth to SVHs during the pandemic, especially as overall VA telehealth care has increased dramatically during this time.
This project will survey VA staff and SVH staff via an online needs assessment and conduct individual phone interviews with VA staff and SVH staff who are part of delivering telehealth to SVH Veterans. Following data collection, results will be reported back to VA and SVH staff with the goal of creating learning communities for VAs and SVHs to support each other and to ensure that positive changes and lessons learned in the delivery of telehealth services during the pandemic can inform future utilization, adoption, and sustainability as appropriate while ensuring high quality of care.
Assessing Adaptations to Delivery of Virtual Care from VA Medical Centers to State Veterans Nursing Homes due to the COVID-19 Pandemic
Principal Investigator & Qualitative Methodologist
2021
Funder: VA Office of Connected Care
HBPC COVID-19 study
Principal Investigator & Qualitative Methodologist
2020
Funder: VEMEC (Veterans Emergency Management Evaluation Center)
Visually Capturing Veterans’ Experiences of Recovery in the Time of COVID-19
Principal Investigator & Qualitative Methodologist
2020
Funder: VA QUERI
Awards
Carter & T. Franklin Williams Geriatric Award for the best paper on geriatric healthcare
for the manuscript Dedicated to the Mission: Strategies VA Home Based Primary Care Teams Apply to Keep Veterans at Home, October 2020.
University of Colorado Denver Health & Behavioral Sciences PhD Student Research Award
May 2019.
Calvin L. Wilson Scholarship for Future Leaders in Global Health
April 2019 from the University of Colorado Center for Global Health.
Presidential Poster Session Selection
For research on Strategies Used by Home-Based Primary Care Teams to Keep Veterans at Home. Annual Scientific Meeting of American Geriatrics Society. Portland, OR, May 2-4, 2019.
