Patient surveys show VA hospitals improving

#Middlebury #Veterans VETERANS POST by Freddy Groves In the latest Medicare Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems patient survey, the Department of Veterans ... Continue Reading →

Vets’ IBD stress increases

#Middlebury #Veterans VETERANS POST by Freddy Groves Coming on the heels of a stressful two years of pandemic, the Department of Veterans Affairs has aligned with a website dedicated ... Continue Reading →

Contaminated drinking water a problem at U.S. bases

#Middlebury #Veterans #ContaminatedWater VETERANS POST by Freddy Groves We’ve known for years about the dry-cleaning chemicals and leaking fuel tanks contaminating the water at ... Continue Reading →

Compounded drugs can be Rx for greed

#Veterans VETERANS POST by Freddy Groves The Department of Justice nabbed a doctor who was licensed in both Texas and Oklahoma for writing drug prescriptions in exchange for kickbacks. ... Continue Reading →

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 →

Top-secret Ghost Army is the stuff of legends

#Middlebury #Veterans VETERANS POST by Freddy Groves It takes a certain kind of soldier to create diversions on the spot, pretend to be a much larger unit than they are and believably ... 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 →

A veteran comes in from the cold

#Middlebury #Veterans VETERANS POST by Freddy Groves The dormitory veterans had made their way down to the railroad tracks in the woods, battling buffeting winds and sleet. There, it ... Continue Reading →