Tag: health care

While in Alaska to recognize Memorial Day, VA Secretary Eric Shinseki discussed the challenges of providing health care to rural Veterans, as well the bright future of telehealth.

ASHINGTON – The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and Department of the Army are working together to provide cutting-edge simulation-based training for medical staff to enhance the quality of patient care at VA medical facilities across the Nation.

WASHINGTON (May 03, 2011) – The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is celebrating exceptional care for Veterans this week, May 2 – 6 as part of the nationally recognized Research Week. This year’s theme, “Discovery and Collaboration for Exceptional Health Care,” celebrates two crucial elements of VA research: dedicated follow-through on important research findings to optimize medical therapies for Veterans and others; and vital research and care collaborations between VA and academic institutions, other government agencies, and health-related industry.

WASHINGTON – The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) will extend health care to eligible Veterans in halfway houses and other temporary, post-incarceration housing under a new program aimed at cutting back on repeat offenses.

Below are web-sites that provide information on Veterans benefits and how to file/ask for them. Accordingly, there are many sites that explain how to obtain books, military/medical records, information and how to appeal a denied claim with the VA. Please pass this information on to every Veteran you know. Nearly 100% of this information is free and available for all veterans, the only catch is: you have to ask for it, because they won't tell you about a specific benefit unless you ask for it. You need to know what questions to ask so the right doors open for you and then be ready to have an advocate who is willing to work with and for you, stay in the process, and press for your rights and your best interests.

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) today announced the opening of the 2011 Industry Innovation Competition to identify, fund and evaluate promising innovative technology proposals to improve the quality of health care for Veterans.

Projects Advance Health Information Technology to Improve Care for Veterans WASHINGTON –Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric K. Shinseki officially announced today the first VA Innovation...

GE Healthcare needs your technical, electronic and mechanical expertise. By Randy Miller GE Healthcare has openings in their Service team that particularly suit veterans. They need...

On Wednesday, the Majority Leadership in the House will make good on their promise to bring up for a vote a bill that repeals...

Cut taxes on the super-rich to fund wars based on lies; create a massive debt and now it's time for Americans to pay. The...

SURVIVING VETERAN'S HEALTH CARE By Dale R. Suiter STAFF WRITER Many of us experience frustration in trying to contact and cope with the Veterans Administration. Helpfull...

By Meredith Melnick in Time In his Oval Office address Tuesday night, President Barack Obama announced the end of combat operations in Iraq — and...

Perhaps most disturbing is that the President's zeal to please his true constituency --- corporate America, Wall Street and the military-industrial complex --- comes from the same Presidential candidate whose soaring and lofty, yet deceptive campaign rhetoric gave rise to hope in so many that Election Day 2008 would mark a return economic fairness, transparency, a restoration of the rule of law, an end to the fear-driven perpetual "war on terror," and a restoration of nature's ecological balance.

It is estimated that there are 2 million World War II veterans left alive.  Many that served in World War II also served in...

Veterans fighting to gain the benefits and care earned, deserved, and decades long over due!

Senators Propose TRICARE Dependent Coverage Extension Act A bill introduced to the U.S. Senate April 14 would, if passed into law, enable the dependent children...

The Tea Party movement has a long, if perhaps not so distinguished pedigree, as fear of socialism has been a tool by powerful economic forces in the US for more than a century used to oppose any policies which might help poor and working people.

Update: See VFW Criticisms of Health Insurance Reform Law Unfounded. - “In some ways,  is worse than the original statement,” said Rep. Bob Filner, D-Calif.,...

by Anne Law in Bizmology As the dust settles (well, maybe) on the long-fought battle over health care reform, one thing everyone should be able to...

In the very arc of his life, Lewis provides a yardstick for measuring American progress. The fact that he rose from that bridge to become a member of Congress says something about this country. But the fact that people demonstrating against healthcare reform chose to chant at him, "Kill the bill, person of color!" well, that says something, too.

The small city of Canal Fulton, Ohio, rolled out the “red carpet” and flag waving crowds swelled along the streets in anticipation.  May 17,...

Nearly 3,000 Individuals Have Responded to the CalVet Survey To Help Prioritize Services to California’s Veterans Sacramento – Nearly 3,000 individuals have responded to the...

Depleted Uranium -More Research Indicated To Assess Health Risk The research on depleted uranium comes out of French researchers that examined the manner DNA is...

America, do you or do you not want health care for your children, grandchildren, parents, far-reaching relatives, friends, neighbors and even yourself?  The seriousness...

One question has tugged at my professional conscience throughout the year-long congressional debate over health-care reform, and it has nothing to do with the public option, portability or medical malpractice. It is this: Why haven't America's old-school news organizations blown the whistle on Roger Ailes, chief of Fox News, for using the network to conduct a propaganda campaign against the Obama administration -- a campaign without precedent in our modern political history?

Where do you start? John McCain is facing a challenge in Arizona. He is going to drag out his military record and his experience as a personal recommendation. Few Americans really know that McCain is a mental case with a "war record" he has had to have "classified" to keep himself out of prison.

Loaded questions were asked of health industry executives who remain about as popular as Bank CEOs.  By Bobby Caina Calvan | The Sacramento Bee Anthem Blue...

At least you have your health, it's everything. Not everyone agrees. Health Means Life; Health Means Freedom by George Lakoff Life and Freedom are moral issues. It...

INFORMATION YOU NEED TO KNOW TO HELP YOUR HEALTHCARE PROVIDER TO BETTER CARE FOR YOU BY CAROL WARE DUFF MSN, BA, RN INFORMATION AND FORMS TO...