A memo about a psychiatrist’s remarks about costs of treating post-traumatic stress disorder has helped spark what the Army Regional Medical Command calls a “top-to-bottom” review of a Madigan Army Medical Center forensic psychiatric team charged with screening soldiers under consideration for medical retirement.
The Department of Veterans Affairs partnered with the First Army at Camp Shelby, Miss., to launch a streamlined version of its online application for VA health benefits (VA Form 1010EZ) for Servicemembers returning from deployment.
Registration is open for the 32nd National Veterans Wheelchair Games, the largest annual wheelchair sports event in the world.
Every day at the homeless veterans shelter in Boston at ten in the morning there was a huge influx of vets.
Almost 20 years ago I met a combat Vietnam Veteran named Robert Van Keuren and his partner in crime Dr. Jon Nachison both advocates like me doing work for homeless veterans in San Diego.
I was searching the internet the other day and came across a story online about a group collecting money for homeless Veterans outside a shopping center.
As my readers already know, I volunteer once a month for the Veterans Hotline. This is a two-hour commitment and I will be “On Station” from 5am to 7am, the third Monday of each month.
A new Veterans nonprofit, “Veterans Workshop” has begun their nationwide recruitment for Volunteers who can assist with answering calls from American Veterans via a new Veterans911 hot-line.
Veterans treated at the Miami VA hospital rate their care as outstanding, a survey by this reporter finds.
The Department of Veterans Affairs plans to enter into agreements to provide more than 1,000 additional units of permanent and transitional housing for Veterans at various sites on VA medical center campuses nationwide.
Last week we asked the Honorable Shawn L.S. Donovan, Secretary of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development of HUD, the following question “Where has the HUD Veteran Resource Center (HUDVET) been hiding during our nations housing crisis?”
Help celebrate Veterans Day with a free concert featuring Kool & the Gang and the Chil-lites featuring Marshall Thompson on November 10, 2011, from 3pm – 5pm at 810 Vermont Avenue, Washington, D.C.
I know people who work at HUD, one of the largest federal agencies in the country. HUD of course deals in housing, but also in homelessness.
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My name is Victor Trinidad and I am a retired Navy Chief Petty Officer who served his country for over 23 years. I currently work as a Systems\Network Administrator overseas. I strongly support the Occupy Wall Street Movement and I only wish I could be with them protesting in my home city of New York. Although I am not with them on the street, I have done my very best to spread the word about the movement by e-mailing my friends and family and encouraging them to join the movement.
The 19th annual Stand Down for Veterans in Need will be held on Friday, November 4, from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. at the North Terminal Ted Stevens International Airport.
We have PTSD interviews from the combat theater that will be the centerpiece of this project.
If you are looking for a good job, this is your invitation to attend the Syracuse VA VETERANS JOB FAIR October 6, 2011, 1:30-4:30
Assistance after the military to make the transition to civilian is often more difficult and complex that combat
Veteranstoday.com, urges President Obama to end the cycle of endangering US security through continued ‘blank check’ support for Israel.
The seasonal flu vaccine is available at the Wilmington VA Medical Center and the Ventnor, Vineland, Cape May, Dover and Georgetown clinics.
This month, Dr. Kathryn Magruder, a VA researcher at the Ralph H. Johnson VA Medical Center in Charleston, S.C., begins a nine-month Fulbright Scholarship in Ankara, Turkey.
Did you know that VA’s Health Services Research & Development Service (VA HSR&D) is working to support Secretary Shinseki’s pledge to end Veteran homelessness by 2014?
The VA Maryland Health Care System has changed to meet the needs of our nation’s newest returning veterans. We have increased our services for women veterans, the fastest-growing segment of the veteran population, and we have implemented innovative …
The Small Business Administration (SBA) released today the FY 2009-2010 annual scorecard of federal agency performance on small business contracting.
After receiving another disastrous report in June for post-9/11 Veterans, President Obama discussed his plans to ensure that all Veterans have the support they need and deserve when leaving the military.
Female Veterans are on pace to double in number over the next few years. In preparing for this demographic shift — and in recognizing that women have unique health care needs — the VA has undergone nothing short of a medical makeover during the last decade.
VA has embarked on a major initiative to reach out to women Veterans in order to solicit their input on ways to enhance the health care services VA provides to women Veterans.
VA has expanded its performance and productivity website by making additional data available to the public.
VA’s Office of Rural Health has been working hard to improve the quality of care for Veterans living in rural areas.
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