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Friday night for a couple hours and welcomed the director of the hartford Va Regional Office as well as the director of the Va Connected Health care system to listen to our veterans, and not just about the delays, but the more fundamental gaps in care that we have right now that we are all working hard to fill. Just one example, k. Robert lewis, a veteran Service Officer from the veterans of foreign wars, shared with the audience very compellingly his understanding that many veterans with the vf...

Despite what i think is tremendous leadership on the part of the va and new secretary, its just not working and the people who are delivering that care in the front lines are suffering and whats even more important, the people that they serve are suffering and weve got to have a big bold path forward to fix this. With that i yield back to the chair. Thank you. Mr. Kauffman, youre recognized. We get scope of practice questions here in the congress relative to the veterans administration. I think ...

Dashcam ra dashcamera evidence. We have not. In colorado the dashcameras are used routinely by the Colorado State patrol. It is left up to the individual officers when they want to use individual cameras. From a prosecutors point of view this hasnt been a difficult tool to employ . No the with respect to dash cameras, senator. The complexity is logarithms when i understand. Mr. Henderson the only reason were probably having this hearing is because of these private videos that have shocked everyb...

Whats even more important, the people that they serve are suffering and weve got to have a big bold path forward to fix this. With that i yield back to the chair. Thank you. Mr. Kauffman, youre recognized. We get scope of practice questions here in the congress relative to the veterans administration. I think a lot of these issues have been resolved down at the state level before state legislatures and ive been on both sides of it as a state legislature where i think they are Better Qualified at...

The form of non v. A. Care and choice care to get this right. If i can make two quick observations. Youre absolutely spot on. First of all we have to force ourselves to make certain decisions about what care can be most efficiently delivered in the community. So weve talked before my example the chairman remembers optometry. Why would we send a veteran 100 miles to get his eyes checked and get some glasses . We can do that anywhere. We wouldnt we routinely be referring that out to the community ...

Of care. Many experienced obstacles while trying to establish needed care being treated in the emergency room. The lack of followup coordination and quality and continuity of care, many of these is troubling and unacceptable. The most troubling issue described in the report was the awareness of the ongoing scheduling and challenges that many facilities face. Furthermore they had opportunities to address the systemic culture of inappropriate scheduling practices. They did not act to address the i...

Enforce it or do you ignore it . I think thats the bottom line. My time is expired but let me say once again, i thank you an your staff for the process you are going through. It is invaluable to our countrys veterans and to the agency. Senator, thank you very much. Senator tester. I want to thank you, too, for your work and your professionalism. It is very helpful to us so thank you for your work. Your investigations, whether phoenix or the other 93 facilities, is focused on scheduling. Correct ...

Guam had as many as 76 vacancies — mostly for nurses, social workers and other health care workers — to serve thousands of military service veterans in the last four

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VAntage Point It’s all about the Veterans: Why physicians choose VA VA physicians enjoy many perks and rewards, especially the chance to serve a unique patient population When we ask physicians why they work at VA, their answers run the gamut – flexibility, a supportive atmosphere, loan repayment, the chance to research and teach, and more time to spend with patients. But there’s one common theme we hear again and again from our doctors about why they have chosen VA. It’s all about the ...