Expand access, but preserve VA health system When it comes to helping veterans receive timely care, veteran service organizations say that in certain cases, they should get care outside of the VA hospital system. In order to make this work, however, the VA system must stay responsible for pa...
During the probe in the wake of the VA hospital wait times scandal, an inspector general says his office was lied to Sep 9, 2014 Obama to veterans: Defeating ISIS won't be easy or quick But, the president added, "America does not forget" and "justice will be done" ...
Transforming Dying: The First Holistic Hospital-Based Hospice in the United States When hospice care began in the United States in the mid-1970s, the program at St. Luke's Hospital in New York City stood apart. Its proponents sought a uni... P Roberta Lyder - 《Journal of Christian Nurs...
In February, the VA inspector general office also said it would examine Secretary Robert Wilkie over allegations he sought damaging information about veteran and congressional adviser Andrea Goldstein after she reported being sexually assaulted at a VA hospital. The IG review is ongoing. “We are ...
In a statement, hospital spokesman Jeffrey Clapper said the facility in recent months has launched a new women’s health provider training program that has increased the number of women’s health primary care providers from 11 to 75. “As a result...
The director of a VA hospital in Augusta, Georgia has publicly apologized for the deaths of three veterans at a facility that were caused by delays in care.
The VA, the nation’s largest hospital system, also agreed more study was needed on the drug and suggested its use was now limited to extenuating circumstances, such as last-ditch efforts to save a coronavirus patient’s life. In the first week of May, 17 patients had received the drug ...
Wilkie is Trump’s second VA secretary after David Shulkin was fired in 2018. A former Pentagon undersecretary, he presided over the nation’s largest hospital system that has seen continuing improvement and veterans’ satisfaction since a 2014 scandal involving lengthy waiting times for medical appo...
Haley Veterans’ Hospital, one of the 18 WH flagship VA medical centers located in the southeast United States that began implementing the WH system of care in 2018. Data were collected June 2020 through January 2021. Participants Veteran participants met the following inclusion criteria: 1) ...
The Caddo VA Hospital will be expanding the hours they'll be dishing out the COVID vaccines for veterans, their spouses, and caregivers. The Overton Brooks VA has been giving out shots for a while at it's Stoner avenue location and want to stretch their times to fit in more shots. ...