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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.
Later that year it was announced that the Des Moines and Knoxville VA Medical Centers were to be integrated, and they became known collectively as VA Central Iowa Healthcare System in 1997. Secretary of Veterans Affairs Anthony J. Principi announced on January 7, 2005 that the Knoxville facility would close.
Facilities in Iowa would need to hire more than 1,300 new direct-care staff to meet these federal requirements, totaling about $89.3 million in additional wages annually, according to an estimate ...
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U.S. Secretary of Veterans Affairs Denis McDonough joined local elected officials and leaders from veterans organizations in ribbon-cutting ceremony.
The organization grew to encompass eight metropolitan areas and changed its name in 2013 to reflect that it was no longer exclusive to Iowa. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In 2022, UnityPoint Health spun off Methodist, Proctor, and Pekin hospitals in Peoria , Illinois, to nonprofit Carle Health .
While nearly 40,000 veterans live in the two counties — about 21,000 in Larimer County and 16,500 in Weld — the Northern Colorado VA sees about half of the eligible veterans, a Veterans ...
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