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VA Kicks Off Disabled Veterans Winter Clinic More than 400 with Disabilities Expected in Colorado WASHINGTON (March 19, 2010) - More than 400 injured Veterans have signed up to take part in the National Disabled Veterans Winter Sports Clinic in Snowmass Village, Colo., the largest adaptive event of its kind in the world, scheduled from March 28 through April 2. "This VA Winter Clinic is an extension of the superb... more »

WHAT Urge governments to publish granular permalinks for all documents on their websites. WHY * Enable citizens to reliably cite government websites on their personal blogs, on public sites like Wikipedia, or elsewhere. * Provide unique identifiers that enable aggregation of citations. * Make the civic discourse surrounding government websites more discoverable. HOW * An easy-to-deploy archival... more »

Some clerks at Hines VA (Hines, IL) have been in their positions forever -- and some of them have dreadful manner and behaviors. It's offensive and a real drag... Conversely while visiting Orlando, FL I was just amazed at the enthusiasm, morale, and "service attitude" I experienced in the Orange Clinic. I think at one point N. Chgo VA was rotating some of their people. Can see at least some of the pros and cons here.... more »

The VA Hospitals are exempt from being put in a law suit. That should not be, If someone in the VA Hospitals make a major mistake that did or could have caused harm to that Veteran and family they should be held accountable. But as it sits the Attorney's for the VA Hospitals tell you all you can get is ZERO to $300.00 for their mistake. And I notice if one VA has trouble with an employee they tranfer he or she to another... more »

I have been fighting the VA for over 24 years on a claim. I have about 2 or three claims in now with the Order of the Purple Heart in North Little rock AR, The Va in little Rock has been sitting on these claims for way over 90 days and all i get is thet they are in for Rating. I call the 1-800 number and they are not up to date with information so to me that is wasting vets time. I am not getting any younger and my health... more »

Assisting in a Veteran Service Office with 25,000 veterans I would really like to see a satisfaction survey sent out concerning what I consider to be a terrible CBOC (from what I have experienced and heard). If these survey results show a high amount of dissatisfaction I would like to see the VA take action to improve these CBOC's. It's not about these VA employees who feel that the VA Medical System is all for them... more »

Maybe the quick fix is to fire all the heads of the VA.And put in more true Veterans that have dealt with the problems that we all have been having with the VA.

Today I was denied a Washington State park veterans disability pass for Washington State park system. I am an American Veteran. I volunteered for service in the Army to defend my country in the Vietnam war. I do have a 50% disability military related letter. I do have a State of California Veteran's disability discount pass card. I applied to the State of Washington for a similar veteran's card to use the State of... more »

Has anyone had a problem`s with the VA not answering there IRIS ?WE have many IRIS that have not been answered is there any reason for that?Many IRIS have been sent to the Region OFFICE in my state.Can something be done to make sure they answer these IRIS and we have been waiting along time for an privcay officer from that region office to call us about a matter that has not been answerd.Can we Fix this or is it just... more »

In the spirit of openess I believe the VA Health System desparately needs recorded monitoring of the VA receptionist at the VA facilities. Many of these receptionists are contracted out and they are often young and working at their first job. I have been working as a volunteer county Veteran Service Assistant for our Veteran Service Officer. I have noticed and many veterans have told me about the terrible attitude and... more »

Why does the federal government exclude Thailand Vietnam Vets from filing VA claims about Agent Orange issues & ailments?

Sincerely,

Thailand Vietnam Vet

Takhli RTAB, Dec.'65 to '66

Over 2 years ago I was treated at non-VA ER. I had been told by my PCP at the CBOC where I was a patient to go to the ER because of chest pain. I notified the CBOC of the visit as soon as I was discharged. I recveived the bills and sent them to Charlie Norwood VAMC for payment. To this day I have never received any notification as to whether of not the bills were paid or denied. Since I didn't get any more bills... more »

There are actuall two issues here. The first deals with getting the Charlie Norwood VAMC to respond to a veteran who has submitted a travel voucher from a CBOC. My experience has been that a veteran has to call the VAMC to find out the status of the request. If the veteran isn't eligible for travel pay then Charlie Norwood VAMC should notify the veteran and tell him/her why the request was denied. Actually, I believe... more »

WHAT DOES THE DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS DO WITH ALL THESE IDEAS?CAN WE MAKE SURE THEY DO SOMETHING ABOUT WHAT WE ALL THINK AND WRITE ABOUT?

Let us see the performance ratings of the VA doctors. The facility medical directors need to do a better job of evaluating physicians and need to be held accountable for the poor performers they allow to continue providing substandard care. Show us the ratings to assure us that quality is being measured and delivered.