Posted on Feb 1, 2022
New VA Office Tasked with Reducing Rural Health Problems for Native American Vets
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The Department of Veterans Affairs is creating a new umbrella office to manage health care for all American Indian and Alaska Native veterans and expanding a new program to help rural Native American veterans more easily access VA health care, officials announced last week.
New VA Office Tasked with Reducing Rural Health Problems for Native American Vets
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Veterans Affairs (VA)
Medical
Alaska
Native Americans
Edited 3 y ago
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About time that the VA addressed this issue for our Native American military Veterans!
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CWO4 Terrence Clark
Lt Col Charlie Brown Hopefully this is not more lip service, and is being initiated in conjunction with the nation's and not imposed top down. AZ is about 30% reservation. The three main VAs presently run regularly scheduled buses into the res and other rural areas. In particular, the T'Ohno and the Navajo are resistive to outside agencies.
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SPC Terry Page
Having an 'Office of...' is one thing; having the right metrics, resources and a solid plan with flexibility is a huge challenge. I the new new office much success with their mission.
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This has been a sadly neglected area for years. We did a risk analysis about 13 years ago which highlighted the HC needs of Native American vets on the reservations. It was blown off by the Indian Health Service and "tabled for follow up" by the VA. Hopefully they will do this right.
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