U.S. Senators Pete Domenici (R-N.M.) and Barack Obama (D-Ill.) have introduced legislation to improve access to services for the thousands of veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan who are increasingly struggling with combat-related mental health disorders.
Posted on January 8th, 2008 by admin
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(October 18, 2007) The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) today agreed with a new Institute of Medicine (IOM) report finding exposure-based therapies for the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) to be effective.
The report released today by the IOM Committee on Treatment of PTSD concluded among its key findings that exposure-based therapies such as prolonged […]
Posted on November 5th, 2007 by admin
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Humana Veterans Healthcare Services Inc. has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to participate in the department’s Project HERO program.
Project HERO, or Health Care Effectiveness through Resource Optimization, was launched earlier this year “to reduce VA contract costs while improving access, accountability, care coordination, patient satisfaction and clinical quality” of […]
Posted on November 5th, 2007 by admin
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Harvard Medical School Researchers at Cambridge Health Alliance Find Sharp Increase in Uninsured Veterans Since 2000: Nearly 6 Million Uninsured Americans are Veterans or Families of Veterans
Of the 47 million uninsured Americans, one in every eight (12.2 percent) is a veteran or member of a veteran’s household, according to a study by physicians from Cambridge […]
Posted on November 5th, 2007 by admin
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The Department of Veterans Affairs repeatedly understated wait times for injured veterans seeking medical care and in many serious cases forced them to wait more than 30 days, counter to department policy, an internal investigation shows.The review by the VA inspector general’s office, released September 10, examined 700 outpatient appointments for primary and specialty care […]
Posted on September 10th, 2007 by admin
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