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← Older postsPrograms can help veterans start businesses
April 11, 2013What hasn’t been discussed much is veterans creating their own jobs through entrepreneurship. Continue reading
Posted in News | Tagged Business, Employment, entrepreneurship, VA | 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 commentHormel CEO making donation for military families
March 26, 2013The head of Austin-based Hormel Foods is presenting a $50,000 donation to a home for families of patients at the Minneapolis VA Medical Center.
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Representatives seek to ease veterans’ herbicide fears
March 22, 2013Two U.S. Representatives from Vermont and Maine want the Department of Veterans’ Affairs to help veterans who fear they may have been exposed to dangerous herbicides at a Canadian military base. Continue reading
Posted in News | Tagged Health, Maine, VA, Vermont | 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 CommentVA backlog in providing benefits longer than publicly adknowledged
March 13, 2013VA reports an average wait time of 273 days. But internal data shows vets wait 316 to 327 days, which can be up to twice as long in big cities. Continue reading
Posted in News | Tagged Disabled Veterans, VA | 2 CommentsReport: VA sent data over unsecured networks
March 8, 2013A government watchdog says the Veterans Affairs Department has been sending sensitive data — including electronic health records — over unencrypted networks, making them vulnerable to theft or misuse. Continue reading
Posted in News | Tagged Data, Health records, Inspector General, VA | Leave a commentWillowWood partners with universities for VA contract
February 21, 2013As part of a Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Innovation Initiative (VAi2) competition, WillowWood of Mt. Sterling, Ohio, in partnership with The Ohio State University and The University of Akron, has secured a new contract to develop a more comfortable and useful prosthetic system to help patients at VA medical centers who have a transfemoral (above-knee) amputation. Continue reading
Posted in Organizations | Tagged Research, Universities, VA | Leave a commentVA added 1,000 mental health professionals to staff, has more to do
February 12, 2013The Veterans Affairs Department said Monday it has added more than 1,000 mental health professionals and 200 support staff over the past eight months to meet the needs of returning veterans, but still has more to do to meet the requirements of an executive order issued by President Barack Obama. Continue reading
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