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Warrior Care Network is a mental health program that provides care, travel, and accommodations at no cost for United States veterans and their families. Treatment options consist of intensive outpatient care, mainly focusing on post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury (TBI), military sexual trauma (MST), and related conditions such as anxiety and depression.
Some research suggests that VA disability benefits achieve their goal of helping veterans who have PTSD. The Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA), a component of the Department of Veterans Affairs, processes disability claims and administers all aspects of the VA disability program. Since 1988 VA disability claim decisions have been subject ...
Veterans who are in suicidal crisis will be able to get free emergency treatment at any VA or non-VA health care facility beginning Tuesday. That includes inpatient or crisis residential care for ...
It requires the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to organize an annual third-party evaluation of the VA's mental health care and suicide prevention programs, to mandate website updates at least once every 90 days about the VA's mental health care services, to offer educational incentives for psychiatrists who commit to serving in the Veterans ...
The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) is the component of the United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) led by the Under Secretary of Veterans Affairs for Health [2] that implements the healthcare program of the VA through a nationalized healthcare service in the United States, providing healthcare and healthcare-adjacent services to veterans through the administration and operation ...
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]
In 2023, the VCL received criticism in a report from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Office of the Inspector General (OIG). The report detailed the case of an unidentified veteran with a previous history of PTSD and other mental health concerns that died by suicide after a call with the VCL due to improper risk assessment.
The Veterans Health Care Freedom Act would create a “full choice” pilot program, empowering veterans to use their VA health benefits at a provider they choose without having to get VA approval ...