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VA Improves Timeliness of Provider Payments

Tuesday, March 8, 2016

Categories: VA Health

Modification Enhances Veterans Access to Receive Timely, High-Quality Care

VA Makes Awards Totaling up to $22.3 Billion to Make Information Technology Upgrades

Tuesday, March 8, 2016

Categories: VA

WASHINGTON –The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) today announced the awarding of 21 contracts worth up to $22.3 billion for information technology infrastructure improvements, cyber security and operations and network management.

VA Announces Additional Steps to Reduce Veteran Suicide

Tuesday, March 8, 2016

Categories: Mental Health

WASHINGTON – The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) today announced new steps it is taking to reduce Veteran suicide.

DoD and VA kick off new Interagency Coordination of Complex Care Effort

Tuesday, March 8, 2016

Categories: VA

WASHINGTON -- The Departments of Defense (DoD) and Veterans Affairs (VA) today announced its ongoing effort to ease the transition for service members who require complex care management as they transition from the DoD system of health care to VA or within each system. The effort is designed to ease the burden for service members and Veterans, who have suffered illnesses or injuries so severe as to require the expertise provided by multiple care specialties throughout both Departments.

Veterans With Incomplete Health Care Applications Receive Additional Year to Enroll

Monday, March 7, 2016

Categories: VA Health

WASHINGTON – The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) announced today it will extend the healthcare enrollment application period for one year to approximately 545,000 living Veterans that have pending incomplete enrollment applications.

VA Improves Veterans Crisis Line

Friday, February 26, 2016

Categories: VA Health

Canandaigua, NY – Department of Veterans Affairs’ (VA) Deputy Secretary Sloan Gibson today announced improvements to enhance and accelerate progress at the Veterans Crisis Line, which serves as a life-saving resource for Veterans who find themselves at risk of suicide.

Fargo VA Health Care System, Veterans Benefits Administration to hold Veterans Townhall, Claims Clinic March 17 in Grand Forks

Monday, February 15, 2016

FARGO, N.D. – The Fargo VA Health Care System and Veterans Benefits Administration will hold a Veterans Townhall and Claims Clinic, March 17, in the Grand Forks County Office Building in Grand Forks, North Dakota.

The Townhall, which is open to Veterans and the general public, will be hosted by the Fargo VA HCS Director, Lavonne Liversage, and VBA Veterans Service Center Manager, Paula Heitmann.

The purpose of the Townhall is to share information, hear feedback, and answer questions about VA health care and benefits.

Fargo VA honors Veterans during National Salute to Veterans Week, Feb. 14-20

Wednesday, February 3, 2016

Categories: VA

The Fargo VA Medical Center will hold a Salute to Veterans Week, Feb. 14- 20.

The nationally recognized week will be chocked full of activities and events at the Fargo VA

Fargo VA teams up with American Heart Association to fight Veteran heart disease

Thursday, January 28, 2016

Categories: VA Health

FARGO, N.D. – The Fargo VA Medical Center will host a Heart Health Fair and Go Red for Women expo on Feb. 5 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the medical center’s 3rd floor auditorium.

The Heart Health Fair is an effort to raise awareness of heart and vascular disease for all Veterans while the Go Red for Women expo, an American Heart Association program, places special emphasis on heart disease in women Veterans. The event is free and open to all VA-enrolled Veterans.

ND Veteran Affairs Commissioner Commissioned as a Kentucky Colonel

Thursday, January 14, 2016

Categories: Commissioner

On October 1, 2015, Veteran Affairs Commissioner Lonnie Wangen was commissioned as a Kentucky Colonel the highest title of honor bestowed by the commonwealth of Kentucky honoring those who have dedicated their lives to civic service. Commissioner Wangen was nominated for this award as a result of his dedication to the service of veterans on a national level through his involvement in many organizations.

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