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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Amarillo VA Health Care hosting Moderna COVID-19 vaccination in Clovis for veterans of all ages
VIDEO: Amarillo VA Health Care hosting Moderna COVID-19 vaccination in Clovis for veterans of all ages By Tamlyn Cochran | March 1, 2021 at 3:29 PM CST - Updated March 1 at 6:21 PM
CLOVIS, N.M. (KFDA) - The Amarillo VA Health Care System will host a Moderna COVID-19 vaccination clinic in Clovis.
On Wednesday March 3, the VA Health Care System will be hosting a vaccination clinic at the VFW Post that is located at 2815 W. 7th Street in Clovis.
To participate in this clinic, Veterans are asked to call (806) 355-9703, and press option 2, to reserve their time.
A question and answer session for U.S. military veterans on COVID-19 vaccination and scheduling will be held at 3 p.m. March 10 at American Legion Post 38 on Jackson Street in Fort Myers.
Post 38 and the Bay Pines VA will sponsor the session. The coming round of vaccinations will be for veterans from minority communities and veterans who are enrolled in the VA Health Care System.
Veterans will be told how to enroll in the VA Health System, answer questions about the available vaccines and find out upcoming vaccination dates.
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WBRC) - Starting Monday, the Birmingham VA tells us they should be able to give shots to 1,000 veterans 65 and older every week day.
And now, they expect to see more veterans enroll with the VA to get their shot.
Right now, there are about 70,000 veterans enrolled out of a potential 200,000 in the area.
Up until now, the Birmingham VA Health Care System has been able to vaccinate up to 300 veterans over 65 with the Pfizer vaccine.