The Department of Veterans Affairs this month unveiled plans to end veterans homelessness in Los Angeles by 2016. The move came as the agency races to meet its goal of eliminating the same problem across… Read More
The Government Accountability Office now considers the VA hospitals as a high-risk agency that is susceptible to waste, fraud and abuse in an updated report. There seems to lack coordination between VA and non-VA hospitals,… Read More
Des Plaines American Legion Post 36 will host a program Saturday explaining the rights and benefits to which all veterans are entitled, organizers said. The free program begins at noon and will last about two… Read More
Four of Wisconsins U.S. representatives are asking the House Veterans Affairs panel to hold a hearing in Tomah on reported over-prescriptions, wait times, and other issues at the citys VA medical center. Republicans Sean Duffy… Read More
President Barack Obama signed a veterans suicide prevention bill into law February 12 in an effort to provide national mental health support for military veterans. The Clay Hunt Suicide Prevention for American Veterans Act will… Read More
OMAHA, Neb. — The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) announces the appointment of B. Don Burman as the new director of the VA Nebraska-Western Iowa Health Care System (VA NWIHCS). We are excited to bring… Read More
VA Secretary Robert McDonald said Sunday that 900 employees at the scandal-plagued agency have lost their jobs under his leadership since July. Weve held accountable about 900 employees who are no longer with us since… Read More
The new head of the Veterans Affairs Department, Robert McDonald, says hes determined to run the sprawling, scandal-ridden government agency like a business. And to prove he means business, the former private sector executive ticked… Read More
An army of volunteers fans across greater Los Angeles to count the homeless and more than 1 in 10 is a veteran. Los Angeles has long had the largest population of homeless veterans in the… Read More
Two programs that connect arrested veterans to treatment – rather than jail – report that many are getting their lives back on track. Some 81 percent of veterans in the program run by the Veterans… Read More