VA Opening 31 New Outpatient Clinics - WASHINGTON – Veterans will have easier access to world-class health care under a Department of Veterans Affairs plan to open 31 new outpatient clinics in 16 states. Secretary of Veterans Affairs Dr. James B. Peake announced that VA will establish new clinics in Alabama, Arkansas, California, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Vermont. (12/4/08)
VA Sends Latest Gulf War Illness Report to IOM for Review - WASHINGTON -- The Department of Veterans Affairs has sent the October 2008 report from the VA Research Advisory Committee on Gulf War Veterans’ Illnesses to the National Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Medicine (IOM) for review and recommendations. (12/1/08)
VA and Louisiana State University Announce Site Selections for New Orleans Medical Center Projects - WASHINGTON – In a public event held today in New Orleans, the Department of Veterans Affairs and the State of Louisiana jointly announced the selection of adjacent downtown sites for construction of their replacement medical center projects. The two projects, called the Veterans Affairs Medical Center and the Louisiana State University Academic Medical Center, restore greatly needed health care capability lost in New Orleans during flooding after Hurricane Katrina in late August 2005. (11/25/08)
VA Expands Protections for Veterans with Missing Paperwork - WASHINGTON – The Department of Veterans Affairs today announced special procedures for processing claims from veterans, family members, and survivors whose applications for financial benefits from VA may have been mishandled by VA personnel. (11/17/08)
VA Announces Expansion Of Disability Evaluation System Pilot - WASHINGTON -- Wounded service members leaving the military will have easier, quicker access to their veterans benefits due to the expansion of a pilot program that will offer streamlined disability evaluations that will reach 19 military installations, representing all military departments. (11/7/08)
A Veterans Day Message - WASHINGTON -- Ninety years ago today, the guns fell silent in Europe. World War I – the “war to end all wars” – was over. Almost five million Americans served during that first modern, mechanized war. Our last living link with them, 107-year-old Army veteran Frank Buckles, observes this Veterans Day at his farm in West Virginia. (11/7/08)
Nation Salutes Those Who Served on Veterans Day - WASHINGTON – During Veterans Day, Nov. 11, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Dr. James B. Peake calls on Americans to recognize the nation's 23.4 million living veterans and the generations before them who fought to protect freedom and democracy. (11/5/08)
VA Honors Quality Achievement Award Winners - WASHINGTON – The Department of Veterans Affairs has selected the Minneapolis VA Medical Center as this year’s recipient of the Robert W. Carey Quality Award – the department’s top honor for quality achievement. (11/4/08)
