VA Secretary visits Fort Harrison, listens to vets concerns
Alexie Aguayo
and last updated 2021-04-07 19:24:27-04
FORT HARRISON â Veterans Affairs Secretary Denis McDonough, along with Sen. Jon Tester, Sen. Steve Daines and Congressman Matt Rosendale hosted a roundtable discussion with nearly a dozen local veterans at Fort Harrison to hear veterans feedback about the VA Health Care System and other related topics.
One of the first topics was mental health care for vets, specifically treatment resistant depression.
âThirty-percent of people with depression won t respond to medication and they won t respond to therapists,â says Matt Kuntz, Executive Director of the National Alliance on Mental Illness of Montana. âWe need other kinds of treatment. When I was on a VA Commission and got them to do a data analysis of that. It was only 2,000 veterans in the VA system that received appropriate care for that, out of approximately 300,000 veterans that should have bee
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