The Va's Rural-Urban Scenarios

They claimed Iraq and Afghanistan veteran polls have been taken, it shows that whatever improvements and actions being were taken were not enough. Fifty-nine percent of the people rated the job the government was doing to help was good, while fifty-six percent rated it as them doing poorly. In an article by CNN news nineteen veterans have died because of delays for medical treatments from the Veterans Affair. Those nineteen veterans were only a small proportion of that group. A number of eight-two veterans who have died because of delays for medical treatments like colonoscopies or endoscopies. Some people like my father (Jason McLain), who is a retired veteran, believes that some doctors have their own personal bias toward veterans. Jason McLain stated, “When I go to the VA they do not help me as soon as I need their help. Although when I go to any other civilian doctor’s office they help me right away with any of their help”. A website by the name of Free Grants Community stated that success and failures of the Departments of Veterans Affair are frequently the subjects of political promises and debates. There are many places that can help with benefits or homelessness, simply anything veteran(active/retired) need. A six-year veteran stated that there are places to help but emphasizes that you have to pursue yourself. After you are done with the military to go back to school and to keep getting educated. Besides the fact the regular ordinary citizens complain that veterans are not getting enough help, there have been complaints against all employers for discrimination has blames the economic crisis and ballooning deficits for the inability to provide for more

This study strives to increase the awareness of healthcare disparities among veterans in hopes that veterans can receive the best healthcare possible. This study has the potential to change the structure of veterans’ health care. If their health care is damaged to the extent that some insiders and outsiders believe it to be, then hopefully the veterans’ health care system can be restructured. These disparities can be addressed in community outreach programs to expand common knowledge on the subject.

The United States Congress and the Department of Veterans Affairs have taken steps to address the limited access to providers and the issues around a backlog of healthcare eligibility

The Veterans Health Administration is home to the United States’ largest integrated health care system consisting of 150 medical centers, nearly 1,400 community-based outpatient clinics, community living centers, Vet Centers and Domiciliary. Together these health care facilities and the more than 53,000 independent licensed health care practitioners who work within them provide comprehensive care to more than 8.3 million Veterans each year. VHA Medical Centers provide a wide range of services including traditional hospital-based services such as surgery, critical care, mental health, orthopedics, pharmacy, radiology and physical therapy. In addition, most of the medical centers offer additional medical and surgical specialty services including audiology & speech pathology, dermatology, dental, geriatrics, neurology, oncology, podiatry, prosthetics, urology, and vision

In the past few years there has been increasing discussion about how to provide adequate care for the increasing number of veterasn who are eligible for care through the Veterans’ healthcare administration (VHA). There are concerns is that the VHA is not providing the level of access, efficiency, and quality of care that veterans expect. Lee & Begley, (2016) suggest access to care for the veteran population may be resulting in poor health outcomes. In response to these concerns, the Veterans ' Access to Care through Choice, Accountability, and Transparency Act (VACAA) of 2014, also known as the Veterans Choice Act, was created to improve Veterans’ healthcare. The VACAA proposed to do this by expanding the number of options veterans have for receiving healthcare, by providing access for healthcare at non-VA care centers as well as providing for an increase in staffing at VA facilities (U. S. Department of Veterans Affairs, 2016).

Current funding for veteran healthcare care is low and insufficient because of the large number of veterans, who are being discharged from the military as the country transitions to a democratic President. According to Dr. Rachel Nardin in her article about veteran healthcare, “Soldiers get excellent acute care when injured on active duty, but as revelations of poor conditions for soldiers receiving ongoing outpatient care at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center highlighted, service members often have trouble getting the care they need once active duty ends” (Nardin 1)

The Veterans Affair has always claimed to take pride in their timeliness care. What they were not offering was the truth about how they were getting these numbers. They were changing the dates on paper work and falsely recording in the database. The patient’s charts were altered in order to lessen the effect of their conditions, along with performing useless procedures to make the time seem more favorable. Schedulers were pressured into using unofficial waitlist and other inaccurate paper work in justifying these wait times. It has been proven that the extended waiting periods have led to many deaths within the Veterans Affairs care system. An incident surrounding the wait was when “Thomas Breen, a 71-year-old U.S. Navy veteran, With a history of bladder cancer, Breen called his Veterans Affairs hospital in Phoenix for a follow-up appointment. He had to wait months to receive treatment. In the meantime, his family took him to a private hospital where he was diagnosed with bladder cancer”(Hankel,1). Thomas Breen had passed away before ever hearing back from his Veterans Affairs hospital. This story is important in understanding that the wait times for the Veterans Affair program are causing deaths in our Veteran population. This story allows one to understand how long the wait times could be for this care, but the question aroused from this is what is allowing the Veterans

One can deduce from these findings that overall local veterans do feel safe in their neighborhood and can get around the area ok. They also clearly have a good support network of family and are able to connect with other people sharing their religious beliefs. In addition to this most do say they have access to medical services, per the survey, but as my individual interviews point out the quality is clearly lacking. The survey data also points to a need for more services which my individual interviews point to as well.

Too many Veterans in the United States lack health insurance and are ineligible to receive care provided by the Veteran’s Health Administration. According to American Community Survey (ACS) conducted in 2010, one in 10 of the nation’s 12.5 million veterans under the age of 65 is uninsured. A veteran is defined by federal law as any person who served for any length of time in any military service branch. Contrary to the presumption of most, not all veterans qualify for free healthcare through the Department of Veteran Affairs. The Veterans Health

President Obama’s endorsed the “Veterans Access, Choice and Accountability Act of 2014” (Public Law 113-146) on August 7, 2014. The Veterans Access and Accountability Act often referred to as the “Choice Act”, set forth public law aiding the enhancement of veteran’s benefits (American Association of State Colleges Universities Policy Matter Brief, 2015). However, the goals of the “Choice Act” are to ensure that Veterans receive time “high quality” health care services (U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs,

The article begins defining its demographic, rural native veterans. A veteran is any individual who has served in the military. Secondly, rural veterans include those living in counties with less than seven civilians per square mile (Veterans Health Administration 2008). Finally, native veterans include the following ethnic groups: American Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, or Pacific Islander. According to the U.S. Census Bureau (2010) American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) veterans comprise the largest minority ethnic group in the VHA of 12 percent. The article, “Health Needs of Rural Native Veterans” addresses health care disparities such as poverty, limited access to care, and education that the identified population is

The conclusion by the researchers was that death rates for VA users after the age of 65 is higher in rural communities; however, among veterans of the same socioeconomic background, rural dwelling veterans have a 15% better mortality rate than urban veterans until they reach the age of 75. This means that due to the large number of military recruits from rural and highly rural communities it is necessary for the VA to remedy their current system and to make it possible for all veterans to receive the care they need despite geographic distance.

Approximately 2.8 million VA patients are affected by a service related injury with 1,027,000 or 36% of them coming from rural areas. Many of the vets living in rural areas do not get the help they need and are entitled to due to barriers to healthcare with the main barrier being the distance to the nearest VHA facility. This can cause vets to seek more expensive care at non VA

Through its advocacy program, Ruck up provides three mostly local primary services of housing, health care at Cheshire medical center, advocacy of filling out and completing VA claims as well as social security claims. They closely work with Cheshire housing and in the past year have successfully placed four Veterans in their own homes. Veteran’s Choice system is a uses by many Veterans in this community. It allows for Veterans to receive health care locally if the closest Veteran hospital is greater than 5o miles away. Due to the high demand at Veteran hospitals Local veteran can now receive health care at Cheshire Medical Center. Rides are often coordinated amongst Vets to and from local VA hospital in White River Junction Vermont and medical care centers as in Keene. The staff is adept and

Accessing health care services can be very challenging for rural residents. Sometimes, they must traveling long distances to seek critical care. Because rural hospitals are usually the sole source for patient care, they are better positioned to offer additional health care services. Critical Access Hospitals are required to improve care for rural patients by improving access to urgent care services and meeting previously unmet community health needs. They are expected to