Freedom Team Salute, an outreach program sponsored by the U.S. Army honors the service of Army veterans, parents and spouses of Soldiers, Guard and Reserves. The team recently celebrated the contributions of African American Soldiers to Army legacy, from the Buffalo Soldiers to the present, and saluted an ‘American Original,’ the Leo A. Brooks, Sr. family; the first African American family to have three members, a father and two sons, rise to the level of General Officer. Read more…
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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 exposure therapy and cognitive processing therapy have proven to be effective treatments for PTSD, while more research is needed on pharmacotherapy to determine its effectiveness.
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(October 18, 2007) As the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) marks the 20th anniversary of its homeless program, VA has awarded 46 grants worth over $16 million to public and private non-profit groups to assist homeless veterans.
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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 care provided by institutions outside the VA system, according to information from the VA’s Web site.
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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 Health Alliance who are also Harvard Medical School researchers. The study is published in the December, 2007 issue of the American Journal of Public Health. 1.8 million Veterans (12.7 percent of non-elderly veterans) were uninsured in 2004, up 290,000 since 2000, the study found. An additional 3.8 million members of their households were also uninsured and ineligible for VA care.
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