VA Initiates New Business Improvement Program - WASHINGTON – To upgrade its financial and asset management systems, the Department of Veterans Affairs announced two requests for proposals for the Financial and Logistics Integrated Technology Enterprise Program. (8/1/08)
VA Announces New Nursing Academy Sites - WASHINGTON -- To provide compassionate, highly-trained nurses to serve the health care needs of the nation’s veterans, the Department of Veterans Affairs is establishing new partnerships with seven of the country’s finest nursing schools. The partnerships will bring to 10 the number of collaborations between the Department and nursing schools under the VA Nursing Academy. (7/31/08)
VA Rolling Out Suicide Hotline Ads in DC - WASHINGTON – Veterans and other residents of metropolitan Washington, D.C., have begun seeing outreach information on buses and inside subway cars about the suicide prevention hotline of the Department of Veterans Affairs. (7/25/08)
VA Names New South Carolina National Cemetery - WASHINGTON – The Department of Veterans Affairs has named the national cemetery to be built near Columbia, S.C., as the “Fort Jackson National Cemetery.” VA also awarded a $2.53 million construction contract for the initial phase of development to International Public Works, LLC, of North Charleston. (7/25/08)
VA, Monster Partner for Veteran Job Seekers - WASHINGTON – In a new plan to help veterans find jobs, the Department of Veterans Affairs has partnered with Monster Government Solutions, a division of Monster Worldwide, Inc., a company that markets online employment services to employers and job seekers. (7/22/08)
VA Reburies War of 1812 General at Congressional Cemetery - WASHINGTON – Descendants of a War of 1812 general officer who died in 1841 witnessed his re-interment during a ceremony July 17 at a historic gravesite administered by the Department of Veterans Affairs. (7/18/08)
VA Helps Vets Reengage with Life - WASHINGTON – From the laboratory to open air, making medical and mental miracles are the focus of the July edition of “The American Veteran,” the monthly half-hour news magazine from the Department of Veterans Affairs. (7/18/08)
VA’s National PTSD Center Deputy Honored - WASHINGTON -- Dr. Paula Schnurr, deputy executive director for VA’s National Center for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), received the 3rd annual Ladies Home Journal “Health Breakthrough Award” for her work with PTSD and women veterans. (7/18/08)
Heroism and Athletics Converge in Omaha for Veterans Wheelchair Games - WASHINGTON – The 28th National Veterans Wheelchair Games, scheduled to take place July 25–29 in Omaha, Neb., will attract more than 500 veterans with disabilities. It has become the largest annual wheelchair sports competition in the world. Veterans from conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq will again join their fellow veterans in 17 competitive events. (7/17/08)
VA Announces On-Line Claims Applications - WASHINGTON – The Department of Veterans Affairs announced today that on-line applications are now accepted from veterans, survivors and other claimants filing initial applications for disability compensation, pension, education, and vocational rehabilitation and employment benefits without the additional requirement to submit a signed paper copy of the application. (7/16/08)
VA Announces New Sports Clinic for Newly Injured Veterans - WASHINGTON – One hundred recently injured veterans from around the country will participate in a unique rehabilitative sports experience this September in San Diego, the National Veterans Summer Sports Clinic, sponsored by the Department of Veterans Affairs. (7/15/08)
VA Announces 55 Per Diem Awards for Homeless Assistance - WASHINGTON -- Homeless veterans and those who help them received a significant boost in their efforts when the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs made 55 new awards to public and private nonprofit organizations that assist homeless veterans. (7/14/08)
Veterans Mourn the Passing of Dr. Michael DeBakey - WASHINGTON – Secretary of Veterans Affairs Dr. James B. Peake joined with national leaders in offering condolences to the family and colleagues of Dr. Michael E. DeBakey, an internationally acclaimed medical pioneer with long ties to the Department of Veterans Affairs. DeBakey, 99, died Friday in Houston. (7/12/08)
Summit Brings Renewed VA Drive for Women Veterans - WASHINGTON – An aggressive push to ensure women veterans receive the highest quality of care in VA medical facilities was pledged by Secretary of Veterans Affairs Dr. James B. Peake at a recent VA National Summit on Women Veterans’ Issues. (7/11/08)
Secretary Reinforces VA’s Commitment to Research Safety and Veteran Focus - WASHINGTON – In a congressional hearing Secretary of Veterans Affairs James B. Peake, M.D., discussed the safety and importance of the research programs operated by the Department of Veterans Affairs as well as an absolute commitment to its patients, while expressing regret that even a single veteran would feel improperly treated or misused. (7/9/08)
VA Vet Centers Coming to 39 Communities - WASHINGTON – Combat veterans will receive readjustment counseling and other assistance in 39 additional communities across the country where the Department of Veterans Affairs will develop Vet Centers by fall 2009. (7/9/08)
