Reed Walker, Community Engagement and Partnerships Coordinator (CEPC) from the Wilkes-Barre VA Medical Center, explained to the council at its 19 July 2023 meeting that the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) is interested in creating a Suicide Prevention Coalition in the Lehigh Valley towards achieving its clinical healthcare priority: preventing veteran Read more…
Veterans have a higher rate of cancer than the general population due to toxic exposures, apparently. Therefore, when something comes along that expedites its detection, that is particularly newsworthy because it may save lives. Advances are slowly coming forth in the War on Cancer, first announced in the early 1970’s. Read more…
It is still tough to figure the complete score concerning Camp Lejeune tort claims raised by the “Camp Lejeune Justice Act of 2022” provision (Section 804 of PL 117-168) in the Honor Our PACT past last August — especially the puzzle of how the VA will calculate a successful filing’s Read more…
On 1 January 2023, the Department of Veterans Affairs will open enrollment for its new VALife life insurance policy — making life insurance available to more Veterans than ever before.  According to the news release, this is the first new VA life insurance program for Veterans in more than 50 Read more…
Oh, and By the Way, Know Your Shortcut Numbers Today, our VISN-4 Community Relations Office informed us with the message below that a retired VA phone number may put military veterans’ information at risk: The Department of Veterans Affairs established 1-800-MyVA411 (1-800-698-2411) in 2020 to help Veterans, their family Read more…
There has been recent confusion in the local veterans community over receiving COVID-19 vaccine booster shots. Part of it is due to the Wilkes-Barre VA Medical Center’s (VAMC) recent cancellation of scheduled appointments for the recommended, regular booster. That occurred because a new, bivalent versions from Pfizer and Moderna suddenly Read more…
We have previously written about the VISN-4’s Health Chat program, an improvement on the previous longstanding, “night nurse” scheme that has existed for eon’s in the VA Healthcare system. What has not been written about is the investment our VISN-4 has made to get veterans to the “right care, right Read more…
Note this is a virtual meeting. There is no physical location.
