The Department of Veterans Affairs is recruiting 8,000 volunteers for the Phase 3 clinical trials of at least four COVID-19 vaccine candidates at 20 federal medical facilities across the U.S.
Read More »Crisis Puts A Freeze On Plans To Overhaul Military, Veterans Health Systems
The global pandemic has put medical staffing shortages in stark relief — and prompted a halt to the system overhaul. Veterans and military advocates say that, with the focus on fighting COVID-19, now is not the time to pursue major changes.
Read More »Even Doctors Can’t Navigate Our ‘Broken Health Care System’
Dr. Hasan Shanawani was overcome by frustration. So, last week he picked up his cellphone and began sharing on Twitter his family’s enraging experiences with ...
Read More »VA Hospital Care Rates Just As Well As Private Centers
Veterans Affairs hospitals seem to do just as well as other U.S. hospitals when it comes to treating older men with heart disease or pneumonia, ...
Read More »Lower Use of Cancer-Related Imaging in VA Health System
WEDNESDAY, Dec. 3, 2014 (HealthDay News) — Cancer-related imaging use is lower in the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) health care system than in fee-for-service ...
Read More »V.A. Plans To Increase Physician Salary Hire More Providers
By Brad Broker As part of its campaign to improve access and care, the Department of Veterans Administration has announced a major recruiting plan to ...
Read More »VA Already Reports More Referrals To Private Doctors, Improved Hiring Plans
By Alan Lyndon The VA is aggressively hiring physicians and significantly increasing referrals of veterans to private docs. That’s the word from the new chief ...
Read More »This Is How VA Doctors Would Fix The VA
By Brad Broker This Physicians News story can be republished for free. (See details) Now that Congress has passed a $17 billion bill to reform ...
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