All posts tagged "Veterans Affairs"

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  Alarming shortage of specialists to care for Puerto Rico veterans

  It can take a veteran on the island up to four months to get an appointment

  • Posted March 12, 2018
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  VA exploring idea of merging health system with Pentagon

  News of the plan stirred alarm from veterans groups.

  • Posted November 17, 2017
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  Trump signs law to make VA more accountable for vets’ care

  Would make it easier to fire Veterans Affairs employees

  • Posted June 23, 2017
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  Democrats criticize Trump’s budget plan as hurting VA care

  Denounce it neglects core VA hospitals and programs

  • Posted June 15, 2017
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  VA warns of surprise budget gap, insists no delays in care

  Making \urgent request to Congress to allow it to shift money from other programs

  • Posted June 14, 2017
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  Trump to sign order creating accountability office at VA

  WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump plans to sign an executive order Thursday creating an accountability and whistleblower protection office at the Department of Veterans Affairs. Trump, who made improving veterans’ care a prominent issue as he campaigned...

  • Posted April 27, 2017
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  VA data show low rate of discipline for drug loss, theft

  WASHINGTON — Doctors, nurses or pharmacy staff at the Department of Veterans Affairs’ hospitals were fired or reprimanded in only a small fraction of thousands of reported cases of opioid theft and missing prescriptions since 2010, according...

  • Posted February 27, 2017