Veterans
Those who serve our nation in defense of freedom must never be forgotten when they return home. It is vital to fully fund the necessary services to our veterans and their families in the most cost effective manner possible.
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DENVER — Wade Barton still gets emotional every time he visits his father’s grave at Fort Logan National Cemetery west of Denver. “I wish things were better off than they were,” Barton said looking over his father’s tombstone.
While honoring members of the armed services with special ceremonies on Veterans Day, the nation should also take time to reflect on its decision more than 40 years ago to field an all-volunteer military.
(Washington, D.C.) Today, the office of Congressman Mike Coffman (CO-6) announced that the Veterans Administration has approved the Eastern Colorado Health Care System (ECHCS) for the establishment of a new Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center (GRECC) at the Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora Colorado.
Once it's up and running, the new Veteran's Affairs building at the Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora will include a research and treatment center entirely devoted to the care of aging veterans.
The VA Eastern Colorado Health Care System building that is currently under construction at Anschutz will establish the first Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center in the country in more than 15 years.
The Department of Veterans Affairs last month tried to force one of its employees to sign a non-disclosure agreement and threatened disciplinary action, after the employee appeared on television to criticize the VA for failing in its mission to deliver health care to veterans.
Work may not resume on an outpatient health center for the Veterans Affairs Butler Healthcare System until 2015, nearly two years after crews broke ground, an official said.
After staff members told 7NEWS that the surgical unit at Denver's Veterans Affairs Medical Center would be closed again this week due to contamination issues, VAMC Public Information Officer Dan Warvi, provided an update, saying the hospital's operating rooms are open for limited procedures, and that disposable surgical tools would be used.
Warvi released the following statement to 7NEWS:
As far back as 2012, a Department of Veterans Affairs advisory board was warning about excessive sway that reverse auction firm FedBid, a well-connected contractor employing former top White House officials, had on VA contracting officers.
A House panel says the head of the VA’s Board of Veterans’ Appeals continues to mismanage the legal office and may have been “untruthful” in her sworn congressional testimony claiming improvements in processing vet appeals last month.