Download or read book Keeping the Promise of Veterans Health Care written by Mary Ellen Butler and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Keeping the Promise to America s Veterans written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Keeping the promise written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book BROKEN PROMISES written by LtCol Ted Blickwedel and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2023-08-18 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Witness the Heroic yet devastating Crusade by WHISTLEBLOWER, combat veteran and retired Marine Corps LtCol, Ted Blickwedel, who took on the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to defend Veterans’ quality care and the well-being of those who serve them. Blickwedel, a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and VET Center counselor for the VA, fought valiantly to protect veterans, their families and counselors from the VA’s misguided, harmful and unethical clinical performance policies, which turned patients into numbers and severely compromised the mental health and welfare of both Veterans and the clinicians who serve them. Consequently, VA management was no longer “keeping the promise” Abraham Lincoln made in 1865 after the Civil War: “To care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan.” Now the VA was ‘breaking the promise.’ Broken Promises also uncovers the toxic, malicious and deceptive whistleblower retaliation tactics inflicted on Blickwedel by VA officials designed to silence him from ‘speaking truth to power,’ and it reveals the horrific impact these retributions had on himself, family members, clients and counselors. Though defamed, marginalized, gaslighted, mobbed, and experiencing traumatic near-death health challenges, he marched steadfastly on. Despite being forced to leave the job he loved, counseling his fellow veterans, Blickwedel was compelled and determined to expose and correct the callous misconduct, injustice and abuse perpetrated by VA management. A federal Government Accountability Office (GAO) investigation Blickwedel helped instigate substantiated his allegations, which led to the U.S. Congress passing legislation into law that ensures VA leadership is accountable for protecting the quality of care for our Veterans and their families, as well as safeguarding the well-being and morale of counselors who provide services to them at over 300 VET Centers nationwide. Broken Promises further gives hope to those who undertake similar campaigns to report corruption, neglect and maltreatment by providing indispensable guidelines that will greatly enhance the effectiveness of the endeavor while granting a better chance for a more favorable outcome. Also, self-care strategies are offered which are essential to maintain good health and resilience throughout such an overwhelming ordeal. Blickwedel’s unwavering Battle to rectify jeopardized mental health care and endangered counselor welfare within the VA VET Center program has been featured on NBC and NPR, to include the Military Times, other publications and local news broadcasts. A man of courage, integrity and tireless resolve, Blickwedel epitomizes all that is great in our American heroes.
Download or read book Keeping the Promise for Arizona Veterans written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Veterans' Affairs and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Keeping the Promise for Arizona Veterans written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-20 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Keeping the promise for Arizona veterans : the VA Choice card, management accountability, and Phoenix VA Medical Center : hearing before the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Fourteenth Congress, first session, December 14, 2015.
Download or read book Summary of VA Benefits for Disabled Veterans written by and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Promise and Challenges of VA Community Care written by Petra W. Rasmussen and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs contracts with private-sector providers to help ensure that eligible veterans receive timely health care. This care can alleviate access barriers for veterans, but questions remain about its cost and quality. With recent expansions in eligibility for community care, accurate data will be critical to policy and budget decisions and promoting high-quality care for veterans.
Download or read book Keeping the Promise written by Canada. Gerontological Advisory Council and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Keeping the promise written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Veterans Health Care written by David P. Baine and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Quality Initiatives Undertaken by the Veterans Health Administration written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The VA is now treating more than 5 million vets each year. The quality of care in the veterans¿ health system has been bolstered by concerted efforts to track performance measures, expand the use of health IT, manage chronic diseases, coordinate care by different providers, and enhance the provision of evidence-based medical practices. This report is an assessment of quality improvement, cost and utilization of services, and health IT in the VHA. It examines VHA¿s experience with quality improvement and health IT. The assessment also aims to improve understanding of how VHA¿s system serves its patients. That info. may prove useful as decisionmakers consider how veterans¿ health care might be affected by proposals for health care reform.
Download or read book Quality Initiatives Undertaken by the Veterans Health Administration written by Allison Percy and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: And introduction -- The health care system for veterans -- Quality improvements within VHA -- Appendix A: VistA outside the Veterans Health Administration -- Appendix B: Comparing the cost of care from the Veterans Health Administration and alternative sources -- Appendix C: The LinKS dashboard.
Download or read book Homelessness Among U S Veterans written by Jack Tsai and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The challenges facing military veterans who return to civilian life in the United States are persistent and well documented. But for all the political outcry and attempts to improve military members' readjustments, veterans of all service eras face formidable obstacles related to mental health, substance abuse, employment, and — most damningly — homelessness. Homelessness Among U.S. Veterans synthesizes the new glut of research on veteran homelessness — geographic trends, root causes, effective and ineffective interventions to mitigate it — in a format that provides a needed reference as this public health fight continues to be fought. Codifying the data and research from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) campaign to end veteran homelessness, psychologist Jack Tsai links disparate lines of research to produce an advanced and elegant resource on a defining social issue of our time.
Download or read book The Sacred Trust written by Thomas D. Plantz Mha and published by . This book was released on 2016-12-06 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's been hundreds of years since United States war veterans entered a covenant with their government--one that promised they would be cared for physically and mentally. But the scandal that broke out at the Carl T. Hayden Veterans Medical Center in Phoenix, in May 2014, showed that one side is not holding up its end of the bargain. That scandal rolled across the nation to other Veterans Affairs facilities, and the crisis is far from over. Thomas D. Plantz, a retired health care executive and Vietnam combat veteran, highlights through his dedicated analysis how the VA and all levels of government have failed to ensure that veterans--in a timely manner-- can access health care services. While the VA provides many excellent specialty services at its 150 acute care hospitals and 820 outpatient clinics, Plantz argues that its warts and blemishes distract from the good work provided by its physicians, nurses, and support personnel. The VA's problems must be tackled, and a newly-elected president working in concert with a committed Congress, new VA executive leaders, and a public dedicated to providing treatment to our nation's veterans would restore The Sacred Trust.
Download or read book Best Care Everywhere written by David J. Shulkin and published by United States Department of Veterans Affairs. This book was released on 2017 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best Care Everywhere provides a path to the standardization of best practices that have been developed by the front line of US Department of Veterans Affairs' personnel, serving the U.S. veterans population to improve the quality of healthcare and delivery experience from any of the current 1,700 VA healthcare facilities. This book contains numerous successful stories and innovations that will hopefully build trust in the ill, injured, and aging American veteran. America's veterans, their spouses and families, VA personnel, private and public medical community may be interested in this cutting-edge resource. Additionally, business developers, leaders, and students pursuing coursework in business development may be interested in these innovations that are being developed within an organization to make major strides in the health care populations that they serve. Related collections: Organizational Behavior & Process Improvement:https://bookstore.gpo.gov/catalog/organizational-behavior-process-improvement Veterans Benefits and Health Issues:https://bookstore.gpo.gov/catalog/veterans-benefits-health-issues Mental Health collection Healthcare Teamwork & Patient Safety resources collection Out of the Crucible: How the US Military Transformed Combat Casualty Care in Iraq and Afghanistan Other products produced by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
