In Pittsburgh, the Veterans Administration increased primary care for diabetics and reduced foot amputations by 38%.
The Veterans Administration, which provides health care for veterans who lack insurance, spends nearly as much.
Now is the time to restore the funding cuts that have been made in the Veterans Administration.
Many veterans may not realize that they are eligible to receive nursing home benefits from the Veterans Administration.
In the USA, the PCMH is now the standard for the US Veterans Administration and the US military.
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This can also cause delays in treatment when going to the Veterans Administration.
The Veterans Health Administration, Veterans Benefits Administration, and National Cemetery Administration homepages have also been revamped.
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In the government sector, Veterans Administration provides an effective model for prescription management.
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Schally of the Veterans Administration hospital in New Orleans, went on to win Nobel prizes in 1977 for that research.
After a stint at the Veterans Administration, he went on to make his fortune in the fledgling mobile phone industry.
The Veterans Administration publishes mandatory requirements (.pdf) that must be met in order for a business to claim veteran status.
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The Veterans Administration wrote letter after letter to the 1, 500 companies that supply them with equipment for its 172 hospitals nationwide.
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But if Microcyn receives its next FDA approval, the company will begin clinical trials for wound healing at the Veterans Administration hospital in Denver.
Indeed, the government already engages in some price rationing in the health insurance programs it controls: Medicare, Medicaid and the Veterans Administration.
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Ferris, 81, says he never tried to use the medals to get benefits such as Veterans Administration health care that he didn't deserve.
He traces his passion to his teenage years, when he volunteered in the lab of the Veterans Administration Hospital in Detroit, near his hometown.
Such a sanction is catastrophic because via coverage under Medicare, Medicaid and sales to the Veterans Administration, the government is the largest customer for drug companies.
To earn permanent residence an International Medical Graduate generally must agree to work three or five years in an underserved area or Veterans Administration (VA) facility.
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In contrast, in 1950, the median downpayment for FHA first mortgages was 35%, for Veterans Administration first mortgages, 8%, and 35% for non-government conventional first mortgages.
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When soldiers came home from Vietnam, psychiatrists, the military and the Veterans Administration didn't recognize the existence of mental illness caused by exposure to combat trauma.
In another example of innovation this summer, the Veterans Administration hosted an innovation contest to solicit ideas from frontline workers for reducing the backlog of disability claims.
They argue that Washington bureaucrats could force drug prices down even further, as occurs in the drug benefit for military veterans run by the federal Veterans Administration (VA).
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O'Neill also was president of International Paper Co. and a official in the U.S. Office of Management and Budget and the Veterans Administration in the 1960s and 1970s.
Small wonder that, like another admired Army chief of staff, World War II hero Omar Bradley, Shinseki has had a second career as the head of the Veterans Administration.
Under President Reagan, Hagel served as a deputy administrator of the Veterans Administration, and while co-founding his own business, he served as the CEO of the United Service Organization.
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The Veterans Administration, one of the biggest health care providers in the nation, is targeting up to six common surgeries for clinical trials, likely including back surgery and nonurgent gall bladder surgery.
When vets arrive -- through referral by the Veterans Administration, which largely funds the program -- they receive meals, housing, clothing, counseling and transportation to the VA hospital for additional medical and mental health care.
Yes, more than a few Democrats will claim that the Veterans Administration health program is the liberal Shangri-la: an integrated single-payer system in which government pays VA doctors directly and owns and runs VA hospitals.
During the Reagan Administration, he served for a year as the number-two official at the Veterans Administration, but departed when the agency head sought to cut veteran benefits and downplayed the dangers of exposure to Agent Orange (a herbicide used extensively by U.S. forces in Indochina).
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