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30 Aug 2015, 7:53 pm by Patti Waller
The Illinois Department of VeteransAffairs (IDVA) and the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) today announced eight confirmed cases of Legionnaires’ disease in residents at the Illinois Veterans’ Home – Quincy. [read post]
21 Feb 2010, 10:47 am by Michael Payne
This law requires the Department of Veterans Affairs (“VA”) to verify ownership and control of veteran-owned small businesses, including service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses. [read post]
23 Nov 2017, 2:30 am by Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD
In the wake of California’s enactment of the End of Life Options Act, the California Department of Veterans Affairs adopted a regulation that mandates discharge of Veterans Homes residents who choose aid in dying. [read post]
13 May 2014, 6:37 am by Tina Shin
Holly Patraeus, head of the Office of Servicemember Affairs, summarized the consumer issues that her office is focusing on: overly aggressive marketing to veterans by certain institutions of higher education to take advantage of the GI bill, student loan debt incurred by veterans, deceptive advertising with respect to home loans for veterans, and pension advance schemes. [read post]
7 Jul 2010, 9:02 am by Dr. Shezad Malik
The Miami Herald (7/7, Tasker) says that the Department of Veterans Affairs, "which in March 2009 revealed that more than 2,400 Miami-area veterans were given colonoscopies with improperly cleaned equipment, announced Tuesday that 79 veterans mistakenly were not notified they are at risk of contracting a disease such as HIV from the procedure. [read post]
22 Oct 2009, 5:25 am
Krista Stephenson claimed she was sexually harassed by Veterans Affairs ("VA") center director Craig Howard while she worked for him as staff assistant. [read post]
21 Jul 2011, 4:10 am by Howard Friedman
Department of Veterans Affairs has now filed its answer (full text) to the complaint in a widely publicized case that charged the Houston (TX) National Cemetery with censoring veterans' committal service rites to eliminate the mention of God. [read post]
7 Nov 2012, 3:02 pm by dvanar
On October 26, 2012, David McLenachen, Director of the Pension and Fiduciary Division, Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), issued Fast Letter 12-23. [read post]
18 Dec 2013, 3:16 am by Robert Kraft
A press release from the Department of Veterans Affairs: Online Access Available to Support Veterans Health Care In recognition of the 10th anniversary of its award-winning Personal Health Record, My HealtheVet (www.myhealth.va.gov), the Department of Veterans Affairs is urging all Veterans and Servicemembers to join the millions already accessing VA health care information and services online. [read post]
22 Jul 2014, 1:07 pm by Jon Gelman
Today's post is shared from kaiserhealh.net and illustrates the effort by Congress to provide more efficient medical delivery for veterans.On Capitol Hill, lawmakers resume work this week to resolve differences over legislation aimed at alleviating long wait times for medical care at the Department of Veterans Affairs hospitals and clinics after reports that s  me veterans may have died awaiting appointment sand that some VA staff falsified records to… [read post]
25 Feb 2009, 5:06 am
Last September, the United States Department of Veterans Affairs acknowledged for the first time that a significant number of Iraq and Afghanistan War veterans were in fact suffering from brain injuries. [read post]
30 Sep 2015, 7:20 am by Robert Kraft
If a recent story at Stripes.com is true, it’s a shocking indictment of the way the Department of Veterans Affairs is being run. [read post]
16 Aug 2017, 2:00 am by bethf
After complaints from Congress and special counsel, a government audit found that 140 veterans who were seeking specialized service at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VAMC) in Memphis were wrongly booted from wait lists. [read post]
1 Nov 2018, 12:21 pm by Legal Help for Veterans
Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) notes that increasingly veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars are filing for disability benefits due to PTSD. [read post]
19 Apr 2022, 2:19 pm by Allan Blutstein
Listen: Modernizing the FOIA Process at Veterans AffairsGOVCIO Media & Research, HealthCast, Apr. 19, 2022As America's largest civilian agency, the Department of Veterans Affairs manages one of the country's most substantial Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) programs to provide federal documents to the public upon request. [read post]
30 Apr 2018, 9:00 am by Legal Help for Veterans
Jennifer Gonzales, a psychologist with the San Francisco Department of Veterans Affairs; Christine Loeber, the executive director of the home and Dr. [read post]