Healthcare Benefits & Programs Update
County Approves Lease For Veterans Service Center
04/03/2018 08:00 AM PDT By Kiera Morgan: Last week the Lincoln County Board of commissioners approved a lease between the Curry Family Trust and Lincoln County for property located at on SE Bay Blvd in Newport for a Veterans Services office. |
Free Dental Work, Puppy Love For Northwest Veterans This Week
04/02/2018 03:18 PM PDT “The VA medical center doesn’t really provide any kind of dental services except oral surgery for health reasons.” Veterans are only … Therapy dogs will also be on site for the 60 veterans who have made appointments when the “Mobile Mouth” stops in the Northwest this week. |
To Treat Pain, PTSD And Other Ills, Some Vets Try Tai Chi
04/02/2018 12:45 PM PDT Every week in Murfreesboro, Tenn., Zibin Guo guides veterans in wheelchairs through slow-motion tai chi poses as a Bluetooth speaker plays soothing instrumental music. “Cloudy hands to the right, cloudy hands to the left,” he tells them. |
VA plans town hall for Eugene, taking questions from vets and their families
03/27/2018 07:48 PM PDT Typically, the interim director of a Veterans Affairs health system stays around for a couple of months. But, Roseburg VA Healthcare System Interim Director David Whitmer says he plans on being in Oregon for a year because of the number of hires to make and problems to address. |
New VA appeals status tool provides tracking and transparency for Veterans
03/27/2018 12:37 PM PDT VA launched a new update for the appeals status tracker and now Veterans with a compensation appeal can view their past and current appeals issues, receive alerts for deadlines when action is required, preview the next events in their timeline, and see estimates of how long it will take to reach those events. |
VA, U.S. Digital Service launch new web tool to help Veterans track their benefits appeals
03/23/2018 08:37 AM PDT Today VA and the U.S Digital Service announced their launch of an improved Appeals Status tool to increase transparency and enable Veterans to track the progress of their benefits claims appeals |