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Coronavirus Live Updates

VA Head Acknowledges Challenges For Health Care Workers Battling Coronavirus

Apr 20, 2020
Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert Wilkie says his health system is not overwhelmed, but it has been forced to ration protective gear.
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Coronavirus Live Updates

Internal Emails Show VA Hospitals Are Rationing Protective Gear

Apr 10, 2020
Seven Veterans Affairs staffers have died from the virus, and unions for VA workers have been sounding the alarm about shortages of protective gear and insufficient staffing.
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Book Reviews
Then-Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin speaks at a news conference on March 7, 2018.

Trump's Former VA Secretary Describes 'Toxic' Washington Culture In New Book

Oct 21, 2019
David Shulkin's memoir, It Shouldn't Be This Hard to Serve Your Country, focuses on his time as veterans affairs secretary, tells of his fights against privatizing the VA — and settles some scores.
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National
Rep. Brian Mast, R-Fla., and other members of Congress are appealing a decision by the Department of Veterans Affairs to evict them from office spaces at VA hospitals.

Veterans Affairs Secretary Evicts Members Of Congress From Offices In VA Hospitals

Sep 25, 2019
The lawmakers have been using the offices to meet with veterans. At least one believes the eviction is payback for his tough questioning of VA Secretary Robert Wilkie in April.
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Mission Act Brings Nevada Veterans Better Access, Shorter Wait Times

Jun 06, 2019

Veteran healthcare can expect big changes when the MISSI

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VA Looking To Build Veterans' Cemetery Near Elko

Jan 07, 2019

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has asked the city of Elko about providing water service to the site of a proposed national cemetery. 

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National Security
Former Marine Josh Onan talks with George Kevin Flood, a staff psychiatrist at the San Diego VA. Onan is taking advantage of a year-old program that makes VA care available to people with less-than-honorable military discharges.

VA Struggles To Reach Other-Than-Honorable-Discharge Vets In Need Of Help

Oct 18, 2018
VA says 115 vets with other-than-honorable discharges received mental health care last year under a new program. Veterans advocates say it's a tiny fraction of such vets who need help.
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National
Robert Wilkie testifies during a Senate Veterans Affairs Committee nominations hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, on June 27, 2018.

Senate Confirms Pentagon Official To Head Veterans Affairs Department

Jul 23, 2018
Robert Wilkie inherits a VA that is undertaking ambitious changes in the next year. The department has been in turmoil since Trump sacked his first VA secretary in March.
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National
Jesse Henderson (left), an Army veteran, walks Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles looking for homeless veterans. His job is to try and connect them with support resources, including transitional housing, offered by the nonprofit U.S.Vets.

Fewer Homeless Veterans On LA's Streets

Jul 16, 2018
The city's most recent homeless count showed that the veteran homeless population had declined 18 percent. But some advocates caution that veteran homelessness is an ever-changing dynamic.
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Analysis
President Trump described White House physician and former Cabinet nominee Ronny Jackson on Friday as an "American hero."

3 Lessons The White House Could Learn After The Downfall Of Another Trump Nominee

Apr 28, 2018
The troubled Cabinet nomination of White House doctor Ronny Jackson could create several teachable moments for this president — if he heeds them.
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Shots - Health News
Even veterans who are using marijuana legally worry they might lose VA benefits if they tell their doctors.

VA Clears The Air On Doctors Talking To Veterans About Marijuana Use

Jan 09, 2018
Officials want health care providers to discuss how medical marijuana could interact with other medications or care, but doctors still can't point vets to state-approved marijuana programs.
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Titus Presents Equal Treatment Act For Veterans, Spouses

May 11, 2017

Nevada Congressional Representative Dina Titus today introduced legislation to ensure equal access to Veterans Administration benefits for all married couples, regardless of gender or sexual orientation.

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The Two-Way

The VA Will Now Pay For Fertility Treatment For Wounded Vets

Sep 30, 2016
Congress has reversed a law passed in 1992 that prohibited the Department of Veterans Affairs from paying for IVF for veterans and their families, after mounting political pressure.
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Around the Nation
Sue McConnell is one of more than 130 transgender veterans receiving treatment at the Tucson Veterans Affairs hospital.

New VA Clinic Opens For Transgender Vets

Dec 29, 2015
The Tucson Veterans Affairs hospital is expanding treatment to the needs of trans veterans, one of the first such facilities in the U.S. to do so. The clinic's services include hormone treatment.
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Around the Nation
Steve Peck, president of U.S. Vets, and a drawing of an M-4 rifle with a grenade launcher taped to the door of a room at the Hollywood Veterans Center.

The U.S. Declared War On Veteran Homelessness — And It Actually Could Win

Aug 04, 2015
In 2009, then-Veterans Affairs head Eric Shinseki declared that all homeless veterans would have housing by 2015. New Orleans has made big strides, but in Los Angeles, the problem persists.
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Back At Base
Col. Kenneth Trzepkowski, chief of palliative care at Madigan Army Medical Center, unfolds one of the handmade quilts donated to the hospital for the palliative care patients.

A Special Focus On Caring For Vets At The End Of Their Lives

May 26, 2015
Service members often struggle with guilt, abandonment and regret. The Army and the Department of Veterans Affairs are working to help make those last days meaningful.
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Titus Says Bill Will Help Vets With Medical Care

Jan 26, 2015
A committee from both houses of Congress has negotiated a bipartisan package to reform the Veterans' Administration. The chief aim of the package is to...
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Veteran Suicides in Nevada

Jun 27, 2012

According to a recent study, veterans are four times as likely to commit suicide than a non-veteran.  Veterans - especially younger veterans returning from the war in Iraq and Afghanistan - made up a quarter of all Nevada's suicides from 2008-2010.

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Are Military Widows Getting Their Full Benefits

Jun 14, 2012
Janet Snyder's husband was a Vietnam War veteran.  He paid into the military's survivor benefit plan for 30 years.
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Coming Home: How Veterans Reacclimate After the War

Jun 06, 2012

Soldiers from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars are slowly returning home. So what challenges do they face when they come home? How hard is it to find a job? Go to school? Communicate with their family and friends? We talk to experts and veterans about readjusting after life as a soldier.

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Dealing with Combat Trauma

Mar 15, 2011
What happens when veterans return home from war? How do they deal with the loss of friends who died before their eyes? How do they re-adapt to work, to the neighborhood..
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Project SALUTE: Helping Veterans Get Benefits

Mar 26, 2010
A Detroit law school clinic helps veterans cut through red tape to get their benefits. They took the idea nationwide, and they come to Las Vegas this week. We talk to the program's director about helping low-income veterans whose cases stay unresolved for years. More
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