Racial Disparities Remain for Health Care for Vets - MSN Health - High Blood Pressure

Gaps in care for black and white U.S. veterans have been reduced over the past decade as the VA Health Care System improved access to screenings and treatment of high-risk conditions among all patients. But major disparities persist in control of cholesterol, diabetes and high blood pressure, a new study says.

Researchers assessed 10 clinical performance measures among a national sample of more than 1.2 million VA enrollees between 2000 and 2009.

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5 retired VA nurses sue federal agency - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

Five retired, part-time government nurses claim in a class-action federal lawsuit that the Office of Personnel Management refuses to properly calculate benefits for former Veterans Affairs nurses unless they hire lawyers.

Sylvia Wigton, 79, of Butler and Gail G. Hudson, 73, of West Grove, Chester County, filed the lawsuit along with Audrey L. Gorgonzola, 75, of Boise, Idaho, Kathryn Daane, 75, of Sturgis, S.D., and Dolores Vassalluzzo, 69, of Oceanside, Calif.

The VA started offering an incentive in the 1950s that gave part-time nurses credit for full-time work on their pensions, the lawsuit says. The agency needed the incentive to get enough skilled nurses willing to work part-time hours on irregular schedules so that veterans hospitals around the country could maintain full nursing staffs, the lawsuit says.

When the nurses retired, however, the Office of Personnel Management refused to give them full-time credit for the years they worked part-time, the lawsuit says.

A federal administrative law judge in 2008 upheld a claim by 160 retired VA nurses and the agency recalculated those retirees’ benefits as well as another 215 who hired lawyers to press their claims, but it has made no attempt to identify and recalculate the benefits for other retired VA nurses and has ignored claims some retirees filed on their own behalf without a lawyer, the lawsuit says.

The lawsuit seeks a court order requiring the agency to identify and recalculate the benefits for each retired VA nurse that was promised the incentive.

via pittsburghlive.com

So to get your promised retirements benefits, you have to sue after decades of faithful service to our veterans?

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Veterans: Traumas resurface at end-of-life - UPI.com

U.S. researchers have tailored a program to help veterans whose traumas resurface at end-of-life.

Researchers led by Dr. Joshua Hauser of Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago and Dr. Amos Bailey of the University of Alabama at Birmingham have developed a program they say is tailored to meet veterans' end-of-life needs.

"Many veterans, at the end of their lives, struggle with issues related to a traumatic event they had during their time in service," Bailey says in a statement. "They may have had a physical or emotional disability related to their time in service."

In addition to dealing with battle experiences, the new program -- Education on Palliative and End-of-Life Care for Veterans Project -- addresses sexual trauma and substance abuse during service, as well as how the particular war in which a veteran served affects both emotional and physical care, and other issues.

"Because these war memories come up more frequently near the end of life, palliative care providers need to be alert for these issues," Hauser says. "We want to show healthcare professionals how someone's individual war memories come up and how those can be talked about."

The program, which began in October, is scheduled to be introduced in 170 Veterans Administration Medical Centers around the country during the next 12 months.

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