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What are your health-care concerns?
System Worth Saving Task Force seeking input from veterans using VA heath-care system for focus of next round of visits.
Legion meetings to focus on health care
Organization’s PTS-TBI Committee, Veterans’ Policy Oversight Committee to meet in Washington, D.C.
Outreach critical to suicide prevention
Efforts by VA, fellow veterans needed to stop alarming number of suicides among veterans.
Construction at Denver VAMC set to begin
Contract awarded after more than a decade of delays contributed to the near-tripling of the price tag; date for start of construction still not set.
VA implementing spouse support line
Telephone support program comes on heels of successful pilot program showed significant reduction in stress for spouses of returning OEF, OIF veterans.
VA launches Make the Connection
Campaign creating ways for veterans, their families to connect with the experience of other veterans.
System Worth Saving visits underway
Focus for next six months will be delivery of Departments of Veterans Affairs health-care delivery to veterans in rural areas.
VA offering free meals for homeless
Meals will be offered at Veterans Cantee Service cafeterias to homeless veterans attending their first VA medical appointment.
IOM: Burn pit evidence inconclusive
Report states insufficient data makes it impossible to say whether emissions can cause long-term health effects.