WASHINGTON – Today the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) announced that it has reached a telehealth milestone, achieving more than 1 million video telehealth visits in one fiscal year (FY18), a 19 percent increase in video telehealth visits over…
WASHINGTON – Today the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) announced that it recently launched a new customer service training initiative for employees to improve VA’s claims and appeals process. Source: VA News
WASHINGTON – Today the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) announced the recent start of a new partnership with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to improve public health surveillance data. Source: VA News
WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs’ (VA) Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA) announced a geographic restructuring, from five districts to four, a change that will align regional offices and special missions more evenly. Source: VA News
WASHINGTON – The Wall Street Journal endorsed VA’s recently announced proposed access standards for community care in an editorial published today. Source: VA News
Today VA announced that the department is providing a new and unprecedented level of transparency to lawmakers in Congress. For years under previous administrations, Congressional critics have taken the department to task for not providing enough information to the legislative…
Tonight VA Secretary Robert Wilkie issued the following statement on the President’s State of the Union address Source: VA News
In an opinion editorial published by FOX News today, four former VA Secretaries who served under Presidents Bush and Obama backed VA’s proposed community care access standards that are part of the MISSION Act. Source: VA News
WASHINGTON – Today the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) announced that, as part of an effort to honor hospitalized Veterans, it will mark National Salute to Veteran Patients from Feb. 10-16 by encouraging communities to seek out opportunities to…
WASHINGTON – Today the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) announced that it has recently formalized two partnerships aimed at preventing Veteran suicide. Source: VA News