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Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center: Kerrville: Kerrville VA Medical Center San Antonio: Audie L. Murphy Memorial VA Hospital [3] Temple: Central Texas Veterans Health Care System – Olin E. Teague Veterans' Center Waco: Doris Miller Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center Outpatient Clinic: Austin: Austin VA Clinic Corpus ...
Veterans' health care in the United States is separated geographically into 19 regions (numbered 1, 2, 4–10, 12 and 15–23) [1] known as VISNs, or Veterans Integrated Service Networks, into systems within each network headed by medical centers, and hierarchically within each system by division level of care or type. This article lists VA ...
Supportive Services for Veteran Families (SSVF) was established by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) in 2011 to create public-private partnerships to rapidly re-house [1] homeless Veteran families and prevent homelessness for very low-income Veterans at imminent risk due to a housing crisis.
Lifespan respite programs are defined in the Act “as coordinated systems of accessible, community-based respite care services for family caregivers of children and adults with special needs.” Specifically, the law authorizes funds for: Development of state and local lifespan respite programs; Planned or emergency respite care services
Cohen Veterans Network is the vision of philanthropist Steven A. Cohen, [1] and was conceived after his son was deployed to Afghanistan from August, 2010 to February, 2011. [ 2 ] The organization's goal is to strengthen mental health outcomes and complement existing support with a particular focus on post-9/11 veterans. [ 3 ]
Connecticut Veterans Affairs Commissioner Thomas J. Saadi read the names Friday of eight men who served in World War I through Vietnam and were either forgotten by their families or died alone ...
The Veterans Benefits Administration has been in existence since the creation of the Department of Veterans Affairs in October 1988, when it was led by a chief benefits director. [1] In 1994, the title was changed to Under Secretary of Veterans Affairs for Benefits. [2] Under Secretary Allison A. Hickey resigned in October 2015. [3]
Another study out of Boston found similar results with homeless patients requiring 50% fewer hospital readmissions in the 90-days following medical respite program participation than those released to their own care (the street or shelter). [12] Medical respite care has been discussed in the American Medical New Ethics Forum. [13] [14]