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United Spinal’s VetsFirst Program Partners With The Veterans Health Council

United Spinal’s VetsFirst partners with Veterans Health Council to improve veterans health by creating an ongoing educational forum for veterans, health care professionals, advocacy organizations, educational institutions, employee representatives, businesses, and state and local [...]

Will VA’s doors be open to all vets?

Will VA’s doors be open to all vets? Is it advisable for President-elect Obama to open the VA’s doors to all veterans and place further strain on the system… [...]

Vet Centers Help Vets Find Their Way Home

Vet Centers help vets find their way home. OIF, OEF and Vietnam veterans share their perspectives on [...]

VA Awards Contract for New Las Vegas Medical Center

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has announced a $364.9 million contract to help bring to reality years of planning for a new world-class medical facility in Las Vegas by September 2011.

The new facility will supplement existing inpatient services for Nevada’s estimated 246,000 veterans in facilities at Reno and in shared space at [...]

Veterans Trying to Get an Accurate Diagnosis

There are many veterans out there, particularly from the Persian Gulf War or Operations Iraqi Freedom or Enduring Freedom, who have deployment-related health problems that they haven’t been able to get accurately diagnosed. There are so many in fact, that the VA has two centers dedicated to identification and treatment of “difficult to diagnose” [...]

Tricare E-mail Alerts

For those of you who are Tricare beneficiaries, you can now get e-mail notifications for everything from pharmacy updates to changes in benefits. You can establish your online access and set your email preferences by going to http://www.tricare.mil.

VA Budget Jeopardizes Veterans’ Health Care

 

Defend Health Care For Veterans

They were there when our country needed them. Now we need to be there for them.

It seems ironic that at a time when large numbers of men and women in the armed forces are returning from the global war on terrorism with severe service-related disabilities, the Veterans Administration (VA) faces overwhelming [...]

Senator Murray Advances Legislation That Opens the VA to All Veterans

June 27, 2007

Legislation restores access to VA services for 242,000 veterans who had been carved out of the system four years ago.

(Washington, D.C.) – Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) helped pass legislation that makes all veterans eligible for Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) healthcare through the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee. The legislation, S.1233 – [...]

Access to Chiropractic in VA System

Action alert from: American Chiropractic Association

Type of Action: Letter to Senator

On May 23rd, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 1470, a bill introduced by Veterans Affairs Committee Chairman Bob Filner (D-CA-51) requiring the VA to phase-in availability of chiropractic care at all major VA medical centers within the next four years. Specifically, [...]