VA proposes changes to disability ratings

#Middlebury #Veterans #DisabilityRatings VETERANS POST by Freddy Groves If you have a Department of Veterans Affairs-rated disability, heads up. They’re proposing changes to the ... Continue Reading →

VA expands services for senior veterans

#Middlebury #Veterans VETERANS POST by Freddy Groves Services for senior veterans have been expanded, including home-based primary care, veteran-directed care and medical foster homes. ... Continue Reading →

TeleHealth visits avoid COVID delays at VA

#Middlebury #Veterans #TeleHealth VETERANS POST by Freddy Groves The deployment of the new electronic health record at one of the Department of Veterans Affairs health systems has been ... Continue Reading →

VA has inclusivity plan

#Middlebury #Veterans VETERANS POST by Freddy Groves The Department of Veterans Affairs now has a cultural transformation action plan with an 18-member task force created last year ... Continue Reading →

VA battles COVID-19

#Middlebury #Veterans VETERANS POST by Freddy Groves The Department of Veteran’s Affairs has been battling COVID-19 from the very beginning of the pandemic. The recently released ... Continue Reading →

Boot-camp for veteran-owned businesses

#Middlebury #Veterans Last summer, the Department of Veterans Affairs brought together 80 women veteran business owners for a six-month boot camp hosted by PenFed and the VA Office ... Continue Reading →

VA expands assistance to homeless veterans

#Middlebury #Veterans With prices soaring all around us, imagine how bad it must be in places that already had high costs when it came to rental housing. In an effort to help homeless ... Continue Reading →

New hires to process VA claims backlog

#Middlebury #Veterans The Department of Veterans Affairs has hired 2,000 claims processors to deal with the claims backlog. They’re going to be busy once they’re trained. As ... Continue Reading →

Annual suicide prevention report offers insights

#Middlebury #Veterans The 2021 National Veteran Suicide Prevention Annual Report shows a decrease in veteran suicides from 2018 and 2019 when compared with previous years. For example, ... Continue Reading →

VA emergency rooms prep for elderly vets

#Middlebury #Veterans Half of our 19.5 million veterans are over the age of 65, and they make up 45% of emergency room visits at Department of Veterans Affairs hospitals, according ... Continue Reading →