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Veterans Health Administration
The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) is the component of the United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) led by the Under Secretary of Veterans Affairs for Health that implements the healthcare program of the VA through a Nationalized health care, nationalized healthcare service in the United States, providing healthcare and healthcare-adjacent services to veterans through the administration and operation of 146 VA Medical Centers (VAMC) with integrated outpatient clinics, 772 Community Based Outpatient Clinics (CBOC), and 134 VA Community Living Centers (VA Nursing Home) Programs. It is the largest division in the department, and second largest in the entire federal government, employing over 350,000 employees. All VA hospitals, clinics and medical centers are owned by and operated by the Department of Veterans Affairs (as opposed to private companies), and all of the staff employed in VA hospitals are federal employees. Because of this, veterans that qualify for VH ...
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Under Secretary Of Veterans Affairs For Health
The Under Secretary of Veterans Affairs for Health is a sub-cabinet position in the United States Department of Veterans Affairs. Formerly known as the Chief Medical Director of Veterans Health, the Undersecretary is the highest official directly responsible to the Secretary for the Veterans Health Administration, which is the largest agency within the department. Although the position is no longer required to be held by a licensed physician A physician, medical practitioner (British English), medical doctor, or simply doctor is a health professional who practices medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring health through the Medical education, study, Med ... (as of 2004), senior medical professionals such as hospital administrators are typically the preferred selectee for nomination, based on both demonstrated ability in the medical profession or health care administration, and with substantial experience in Veterans healthcare or similar programs. ...
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Paul Ramsey Hawley
Paul Ramsey Hawley (January 31, 1891 – November 24, 1965) was an American physician who served as command surgeon of the European Theater of Operations, United States Army from January 1942 to May 1945. After the war, he was appointed as medical director of the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, U.S. Veterans Administration and chief executive officer of Blue Cross/Blue Shield. Education and early years, and family Hawley was born in West College Corner, Indiana, on January 31, 1891, to William Harry Hawley and Sabrina Corey (Ramsey) Hawley. After graduating from the Union County–College Corner Joint School District, College Corner Union School, he enrolled in Indiana University’s Bloomington, Indiana, Bloomington Campus—at that time, the University’s only campus. While there, he became a member of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity. Following his graduation with a Bachelor of Arts in 1912—with less than stellar performance, which he later attributed to his par ...
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VistA
Vista may refer to: Software *Windows Vista, the line of Microsoft Windows client operating systems released in 2006 and 2007 * VistA, (Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture) a medical records system of the United States Department of Veterans Affairs and others worldwide * VISTA (comparative genomics), software tools for genome analysis and genomic sequence comparisons * VistaPro, and Vista, 3D landscape generation software for the Amiga and PC *VIsualizing STructures And Sequences, bioinformatics software Organizations and institutions * Vista Group, a New Zealand software company specializing in solutions for the cinema industry * AmeriCorps VISTA, a national service program to fight poverty through local government agencies and non-profit organizations * Ventura Intercity Service Transit Authority, a public transportation agency in Ventura County, California, US *Vista Community College, now Berkeley City College, a community college in Berkeley, Cali ...
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VHA may refer to for: *Veterans Health Administration, a sub-department of the United States Department of Veterans Affairs *Vodafone Hutchison Australia, a company formed in 2009 by the merger of Vodafone Australia Vodafone Australia is an Australian telecommunications brand providing mobile and fixed broadband services. Vodafone’s mobile network covers more than 23 million Australians, and Vodafone has commenced the rollout of its 5G mobile network. Vod ... and Hutchison 3G Australia *VHA, Inc., an American healthcare supply chain company, one of the predecessors of Vizient, Inc. *VHA, airline code of VH-Air Industrie, an Angolan airline *Vancouver Hebrew Academy, a Canadian orthodox Jewish school {{Disambiguation ...
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Veterans Benefits Administration
The Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA) is an agency of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. It is responsible for administering the department's programs that provide financial and other forms of assistance to veterans, their dependents, and survivors. Major benefits include veterans' compensation, veterans' pension, survivors' benefits, rehabilitation and employment assistance, education assistance, home loan guaranties, and life insurance coverage. History VBA has a history that can be traced back to the American Revolution when the Continental Congress passed the first national pension laws for wounded soldiers. Initially, these pensions were administered by individual states until the federal government assumed responsibility in 1789. Early beginnings, World War I and World War II In the early 1800s, the clerical work related to veterans' claims was handled by a small office within the War Department. By 1833, this office evolved into the Bureau of Pensions, task ...
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Other Than Honorable Discharge
A military discharge is given when a member of the armed forces is released from their obligation to serve. Each country's military has different types of discharge. They are generally based on whether the persons completed their training and then fully and satisfactorily completed their term of service. Other types of discharge are based on factors such as the quality of their service, whether their service had to be ended prematurely due to humanitarian or medical reasons, whether they had been found to have drug or alcohol dependency issues and whether they were complying with treatment and counseling, and whether they had demerits or punishments for infractions or were convicted of any crimes. These factors affect whether they will be asked or allowed to re-enlist and whether they qualify for benefits after their discharge. United Kingdom There are several reasons why someone may be discharged from the military, including expiration of enlistment, disability, dependency and ...
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Military Sexual Trauma
As defined by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, military sexual trauma (MST) are experiences of sexual assault, or repeated threatening sexual harassment that occurred while a person was in the United States Armed Forces. Use and definition Military sexual trauma is used by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and defined in federal law as "psychological trauma, which in the judgment of a VA mental health professional, resulted from a physical assault of a sexual nature, battery of a sexual nature, or sexual harassment which occurred while the Veteran was serving on active duty, active duty for training, or inactive duty training". MST also includes military sexual assault (MSA) and military sexual harassment (MSH). MST is not a clinical diagnosis. It is an identifier that labels the particular circumstances a survivor incurred during their sexual assault or sexual harassment. Sexual harassment "... means repeated, unsolicited verbal or ph ...
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Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2018
The Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2018 () is a United States omnibus spending bill for the United States federal government for fiscal year 2018 enacted by the 115th United States Congress and signed into law by President Donald Trump on March 23, 2018. Legislative history On the evening of March 21, 2018, the text of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2018Rules Committee Print 115–66: Text of the House Amendment to the Senate Amendment to H.R. 1625 (Showing the text of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2018)
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American Medical Association
The American Medical Association (AMA) is an American professional association and lobbying group of physicians and medical students. This medical association was founded in 1847 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. Membership was 271,660 in 2022. The AMA's stated mission is "to promote the art and science of medicine and the betterment of public health." The organization was founded with the goal to raise the standards of medicine in the 19th century primarily through gaining control of education and licensing. In the 20th century, the AMA has frequently lobbied to restrict the supply of physicians, contributing to a doctor shortage in the United States. The organization has also lobbied against allowing physician assistants and other health care providers to perform basic forms of health care. The organization has historically lobbied against various forms of government-run health insurance. The Association also publishes the '' Journal of the American Medical Assoc ...
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Eric Shinseki
Eric Ken Shinseki (; , born 28 November 1942) is a retired United States Army general who served as the seventh United States secretary of veterans affairs from 2009 to 2014 and as the 34th chief of staff of the Army from 1999 to 2003. Shinseki is a veteran of two tours of combat in the Vietnam War, in which he was awarded three Bronze Star Medals for valor and two Purple Hearts. He was the first Asian-American four-star general, and the first Asian-American Secretary of Veterans Affairs. Early life and education Shinseki was born in Lihue, Kauai, in the then Territory of Hawaii, to an American family of Japanese ancestry. His grandparents emigrated from Hiroshima to Hawaii in 1901. He grew up in a sugarcane plantation community on Kaua'i and graduated from Kaua'i High and Intermediate School in 1960. While attending Kaua'i he was active in the Boy Scouts and served as class president. As a boy, Shinseki learned that three of his uncles had served in the 442nd Infantry ...
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Secretary Of Veterans Affairs
The United States secretary of veterans affairs is the head of the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, the department concerned with veterans' benefits, health care, and national veterans' memorials and cemeteries. The secretary is a member of the Cabinet and second to last at seventeenth in the line of succession to the presidency (the position was last until the addition of the United States Department of Homeland Security in 2006). Until the appointment of David Shulkin in 2017, all appointees and acting appointees to the post were United States military veterans, but that is not a requirement to fill the position. When the post of secretary is vacant, the deputy secretary. Accessed January 13, 2008. or any other person designated by the president serves as acting secretary until the president nominates and the United States Senate confirms a new secretary. List of secretaries of veterans affairs ; Parties (2) (3) (7) ; Status Anthony Principi served ...
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