Birmingham VA selects New Director
Birmingham
Ms. Stacy Vasquez currently serves as the Director of the Birmingham Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Center which includes nine Community Based Outpatient Clinics providing quality care to Veterans of Alabama and surrounding states with an operating budget of over $500 million. In this role, she has full line authority and responsibility for the executive level leadership of this 141-bed acute tertiary care facility located in the historic Southside district of the city. As a complexity level 1a facility, it provides comprehensive primary and specialty health care in the areas of medicine, surgery, psychiatry, physical medicine and rehabilitation, neurology, oncology, dentistry, geriatrics, and blind rehabilitation. It is recognized as a leader in palliative care and multiple sclerosis as well as serves as a designated Stroke Center and Center for Renal Transplantation.
Previously, she served as the Director of the Beckley VA Medical Center where she led efforts to replace, activate and expand services at two Community Based Outpatient Clinics. Additionally, Ms. Vasquez was responsible for expansion and oversight of the Network Nurse Telephone Call Center which provided services to Veterans in twelve medical centers averaging over 10,000 Veterans per month with a call response time of under 26 seconds and a 98 percent customer satisfaction rating. She chaired Strategic Planning Committee for a network of six medical centers. Beckley VA Medical Center led the nation in All Employee Survey Best Place to Work Scores and the U.S. Interagency on Homelessness certified an end to homelessness in the eleven county radius making first multi-catchment rural area to end homeless. Ms. Vasquez previously served as the Director for MyVA Performance Improvement partnering across the VA to lead the largest transformation in the VA by identify and execute select transformational process improvements, while establishing an enterprise-wide strategy and infrastructure that supports a culture of continuous performance and outcome improvement at the Department of Veterans Affairs that led to direct access in audiology and optometry nationwide as well pre-need burial for Veterans. She currently sits on the VA Health Equity Coalition to reduce disparity in care and the regional policy board for the American Hospital Association advocating for Veterans with prominent private health leaders.
Ms. Vasquez is a 12-year Army Veteran that has done extensive work to further equal employment opportunities for military members by assisting with drafting legislation that became law allowing equal service in the military. She is the recipient of the Barry Winchell Courage Award, Human Rights Campaign Community Equality Award, numerous Army commendations and is a Sergeant Audie Murphy Club member.
