Tag Archives: Health Care
Minnesota vets groups make case for construction money
April 19, 2013Minnesota veterans groups are exerting pressure on state lawmakers to come through with money for a proposed facility for veterans needing intensive care. Continue reading
Posted in News | Tagged Health Care, Minnesota, Nursing, Veterans | Leave a commentNorth Country health clinic for New Hampshire veterans sought
April 11, 2013New Hampshire’s congressional delegation is asking for a health clinic in Colebrook to assist veterans. Continue reading
Posted in News | Tagged Health Care, New Hampshire, VA | Leave a commentVA says 7,000 vets’ identities may be compromised
April 9, 2013Thousands of South Carolina veterans are being warned their personal information might have been compromised after a laptop went missing from the William Jennings Bryan Dorn VA Medical Center in Columbia. Continue reading
Posted in News | Tagged Health Care, South Carolina, VA | Leave a commentPentagon struggles with high cost of health care
April 9, 2013The loud, insistent calls in Washington to rein in the rising costs of Social Security and Medicare ignore a major and expensive entitlement program — the military’s health care system. Continue reading
Posted in News | Tagged Health Care, Medical, Pentagon, Program | Leave a commentWhistle-blowers allege wrongdoing at VA center
March 19, 2013Employees at a Veterans Administration hospital in Mississippi have reported a range of “serious wrongdoing,” including improperly sterilized instruments and missed diagnoses of fatal illnesses, an independent federal investigative agency said in a letter to the White House. Continue reading
Posted in News | Tagged Health Care, Mississippi, Montgomery, Office of Special Counsel, VA | 1 CommentNew VA clinics, expansions left in limbo
February 27, 2013The VA is warning that unless lawmakers act, some currently operating clinics may have to close after their old leases expire and other long-planned expansions will not go forward. Continue reading
Posted in News | Tagged Health Care, Louisiana, Veterans | Leave a commentCDC: VA didn’t quickly report Legionnaires in Pennsylvania
February 7, 2013A Veterans Affairs hospital lab in Pittsburgh failed to immediately report positive test results for Legionnaires disease that killed five patients in an outbreak linked to the hospitals’ water supply, according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report released Wednesday. Continue reading
Posted in News | Tagged Health Care, Outbreak, Pennsylvania | Leave a commentSchumer, Higgins want federal review of Buffalo VA
January 16, 2013New York Sen. Charles Schumer and Congressman Brian Higgins are asking the Department of Veterans Affairs’ Inspector General for an independent review of the Buffalo VA medical center. Continue reading
Posted in News | Tagged Buffalo, Health Care, Infection, New York | Leave a commentNursing home for North Carolina veterans opens
October 25, 2012A nursing home for North Carolina military veterans mostly built with money from the federal economic stimulus program is opening in the mountains. Continue reading
Posted in News | Tagged Health Care, North Carolina, Nursing home, Stimulus | Leave a commentIllinois congressmen back change to veteran health services
July 16, 2012PEORIA — A recent proposal by two area congressmen could dramatically change how retired veterans could be treated for medical issues in the future. An amendment to the Veterans Affairs Appropriations bill would allow veterans to receive heath care services … Continue reading
Posted in News | Tagged Health Care, Illinois, retired, Veterans Administration | Leave a comment