VA releases ratings on 101 nursing homes

#Middlebury #Veterans For the first time, the Department of Veterans Affairs has released health care inspection reports for 101 of its Community Living Centers, formerly known as nursing ... Continue Reading →

Purple Heart Vets will get new benefits

#Middlebury #Veterans Purple Heart recipients will start receiving one additional benefit in April – priority processing for initial disability claims. Department of Veteran Affairs ... Continue Reading →

Task force will address veteran suicide

#Middlebury #Veterans President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to create a task force to address veteran suicide. He’s bringing out the big guns: the secretaries for ... Continue Reading →

New claims appeals offer 3 options

#Middlebury #Veterans After 18 months of being studied and readied, the Appeals Modernization Act of 2017 finally became official last month. You’ll now have more choice in how ... Continue Reading →

Don’t be a victim of pension poaching

#Middlebury #Veterans A law currently making its way through Congress is called the Preventing Crimes Against Veterans Act. Its purpose is to add another tool to the arsenal to prevent ... Continue Reading →

Telehealth visits surge

#Middlebury #Veterans In 2018, the Department of Veterans Affairs increased the use of TeleHealth medical visits by 19 percent, bringing the total to over 1 million. If you have an ... Continue Reading →

Fake blood pressure readings, again

#Middlebury #Veterans A Department of Veterans Affairs outpatient clinic in Virginia has been recording fake, incorrect blood pressure readings of veterans who came in for care. A 139/89 ... Continue Reading →

We’re not victims

#Middlebury #Veterans Veterans make up about one-third of the federal workforce. That means a lot of us were affected by the shutdown. Some in the mainstream press (as well as the government ... Continue Reading →

Vets have vacation choices

#Middlebury #Veterans If you’re still digging out from all the snow last month, chances are you’re thinking about taking a vacation when the weather warms up. Here are a ... Continue Reading →

Another city has no homeless vets?

#Middlebury #Veterans In a recent press release, the Department of Veterans Affairs announced that Little Rock, Ark., had joined the list of three states and 65 towns that had conquered ... Continue Reading →