Wednesday, January 31, 2018

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Veteran Dies After Puget Sound VA Delays Routine Heart Surgery, Family Sues: A string of poor decisionmaking by medical providers at Puget Sound VA cost one veteran his life recently after failing to provide urgently needed heart surgery within a reasonable amount of time. The agency delayed surgery over 15 days after initial onset of symptoms with the veteran dying after 10 days.


 

10 Veterans Benefits You May Not Know About


 

VA Revises Regulations on Reimbursement for Emergency Treatment of Veterans


 

Guilty: Ex-VA Surgeon Guilty For Illegally Prescribing Opioids To Buddy


 

VA Becomes First Hospital System to Release Opioid Prescribing Rates


 

AFGE Union Demands Congress Investigate $90 Million Veterans Choice Fraud: AFGE president J. David Cox demands Congress investigate massive Veterans Choice contractor fraud that is the natural outgrowth of VA employee failures to reign in employee fraud and wrongful withholding of healthcare from veterans resulting in death.


 

Surprise: VA Not Keeping Employees Safe Enough, Needs More Oversight.  A new report from GAO shows VA is failing to keep its employees safe by not properly conducting risk assessments. Those failures include failing to account for population size of its users and failing to account for the size of the facility.


 

VA Facilities Now Offer Same-day Care for Urgent Primary and Mental Health-care Needs


 

The ‘best kind of handshake’ for young veterans


 

Young Hoosier Legionnaire shines in position at Pentagon


 

President Trump signs executive order to combat veteran suicide


 

Patriotic image honoring Green Beret making the Social Media rounds


 

Nebraska Legion hosting veterans service sessions


 

Legion testifies on the Protecting Veterans Credit Act of 2017


 

VFW Action Corps Weekly: January 12, 2018


 

Managing Risks and Improving VA Health Care: This information appears as published in the 2017 High Risk Report.


 

Home Loan Churning Practices and How Veteran Homebuyers are Being Affected


 

Emergency Care of Service Connected Conditions


 

United States Mint Begins Sales of 2018 WWI Commemorative Silver Dollar and Companion Medal Sets on January 17


 

Funeral Announcement For Soldier Missing From World War II (Eichelberger, L.)


 

Funeral Announcement For Marine Killed During World War II (Hannon, H.)


 

USS Oklahoma Sailor Killed During World War II Accounted For (Aldridge, W.)


 

Marine Killed During World War II Accounted For (Morrissey, H.)


 

Soldier Missing From Korean War Accounted For (Quintero, A.)


 

AMVETS Radio #33 - 11/7/17


 

MLK Day – VA Still Silent On Victims Of Racist Forum Of Hate Veterans Law Judges: This MLK Day, it's important to remember mainstream media really gave VA a pass and failed to hold the agency accountability for years of allowing racial slurs and bigotry from senior attorneys from 2008-15. Why is the media not reporting further on the agency's silence after substantiation of allegations by the Merit Systems Protection Board?


 

5 Ways President Trump and Congressional Republicans Are Betraying Veterans


 

Agent Orange Korean Cancer Data plus other findings


 

‘You have to ask people seven to 12 times to join’


 

Government Shutdown: What Do I Need To Know About My VA Benefits?  VA still does a horrible job telling veterans what to expect during a shutdown while politicians leverage the panic into pork bills to support their voter base to bolster 2018 numbers. So, while our troops are forced to fight for our freedoms without pay, politicians enjoy their whiskey and fat cigars negotiating pork.


 

Is VA, HHS Partnership Sign Agency To Take On TriWest Fraud Allegations?


 

VA’s National PTSD Brain Bank Collaborates With PINK Concussions Group: Women Veterans Urged to Donate Brains for Research


 

Neglect, ‘Fly Infestation’ Linked To Spinal Cord Disease At Manchester VA


 

Veterans: It’s still not too late to get your flu shot.  Experts say one of the worst flu seasons on record still has not reached its peak


 

New online tool provides Veterans with customized instructions for discharge upgrade process


 

Learn about VA’s connected health care tools during Facebook Live event


 

#VeteranOfTheDay Army Veteran Henry Filipowicz


 

Welcome to the Veterans Crisis Line Website

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