Red Orbit (Free subscription) | yesterday
WASHINGTON, July 25 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Veterans and other residents of metropolitan Washington, D.C., have begun seeing outreach information on buses and inside subway cars about the suicide prevention hotline of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).
CNN (Free subscription) | yesterday
Former Atlantic City Mayor Robert Levy was sentenced to three years probation and fined $5,000 Friday after pleading guilty in November 2007 to defrauding the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | yesterday
Sen. John Sununu says Veterans Affairs Secretary James Peake has committed to providing radiation therapy in New Hampshire to the state's veterans needing cancer treatment.
Medical,Health News and Articles (Free subscription) | yesterday
Summaries of several recent developments related to health care for veterans appear below. Disparity for women: Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary James Peake on Friday said that the department has begun efforts to eliminate disparities in the quality of outpatient care for women, the AP/Orlando Sentinel reports. At the National Summit on Women Veterans’ [...]
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | yesterday
By Joe Chapman, Tri-City Herald, Kennewick, Wash. Jul. 24--The Department of Veterans Affairs is relocating patients from the VA nursing home in Walla Walla due to an inability to ensure patient quality of care and safety.
Baltimore Sun (Free subscription) | yesterday
'Lou Gehrig's disease' to be listed as service-connected, U.S. says The Department of Veterans Affairs plans to provide full disability payments for Lou Gehrig's disease, tacitly acknowledging for the first time a generalized link between the fatal neurological disorder and military service.
News: Moldova.org: Politics (Free subscription) | yesterday
Thousands of National Guard and military Reserve members who served in Iraq and Afghanistan did not receive benefits information because of a mistake.The Department of Veterans Affairs believed the 37,000 Guard and Reserve members were not eligible for benefits, McClatchy Newspapers reported. The mistake was brought out during a hearing Wednesday by the Senate Veteran Affairs Committee.While the VA...
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has shut down its 30-bed nursing home in Walla Walla after an outside review raised concerns about the quality of care, and an internal audit validated those concerns.
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
While no one would argue that the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are stretching the Department of Veterans Affairs' resources close to the breaking point,...
Feminist Daily News (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
With over 190,000 women serving in Iraq and Afghanistan, Female soldiers have brought sexual assault in the military to the attention of military authorities and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). According to the Associated...
Democratic Underground (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Source: [b]Gannett[/b] WASHINGTON -- Nine Democratic senators introduced legislation Tuesday requiring the Department of Veterans Affairs to provide voter registration services to veterans at its medical sites and homes. The senators acted after VA Secretary James B. Peake brushed aside reque...
Wake Up America (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
In a new plan to help veterans obtain employment the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has partnered with Monster Government Solutions to help veterans gain employment. Monster Government Solutions is a division of Monster Worldwide, Inc., which is a company that markets online employment services to employers and job seekers. They will partner with the VA to provide veteran-owned small businesses...
The Impolitic (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
expatbrian Almost. Secretary of the Dept. of Veterans Affairs, James Peake, continues to refuse to allow non-partisan groups from helping vets register to vote. Like everything else being revealed about the real treatment our vets receive when they come home, this is a national disgrace. Peake, if this order stands, you're nothing but a pig just like your boss. Wounded vets and amputees who have no...
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
By Julie Poppen A group of increasingly impatient veterans wielding shovels Sunday said it's time for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to keep a promise made years ago to build a new hospital at Fitzsimons.
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Homeless veterans will be getting some help finding a place to live in Vermont thanks to a grant from the Department of Veterans Affairs.
