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to care for many warriors that may face barriers to care including long driving distances work schedules and the need for child care Expanded access to telehealth for veterans around the country should...on September 30 2023 would become ineligible for enrollment under the new statute until October 1 2026 unless they are able to establish service connection or eligibility under some other authority If...barriers to receiving care for their physical injuries or health problems including difficulty scheduling appointments lack of availability and lack of understanding of VA benefits and health care These...
there are failures in such programs as exemplified in past attempts to automate GI Bill benefits scheduling of compensation examinations using geo matching data or calculating disability benefits awards...that the needs of the veterans must come first meaning veterans should have more control over the scheduling of their examinations VA s 2016 Decision Ready Claims initiative provides some insight into the...claim to include scheduling appointments Currently when veterans submit their claims they must wait for VBA to notify them that examinations have been requested During the scheduling phase they are often...
Current Average Wait Times for a New Mental Health Individual Appointment Includes appointments scheduled in advance over the past 30 days including telephone appointments however does not include appointments...Seattle VA Medical Center 37 days Æ American Lake campus 11 days Includes all scheduled appointments including those scheduled the same day over the past 6 months however does not include telephone appointments...Veterans have same day mental health access at the American Lake and Seattle clinics with no pre scheduled appointment necessary Chairman TESTER Senator Moran SENATOR JERRY MORAN Senator MORAN Chairman thank...
to care for many warriors that may face barriers to care including long driving distances work schedules and the need for childcare We are pleased to see that telehealth is addressed as an access to care...
Moran Pg 6 Support S 478 Veterans 2nd Amendment Protection Act of 2025 Kennedy Pg 7 Support S 654 Establishing an external provider scheduling program Moran Pg 8 Support Draft legislation Representing VA with...Sullivan Pg 9 Support Draft legislation The Veterans Claims Act of 2025 Boozman Pg 10 No position Draft legislation VetPAC Act of 2025 Cassidy Pg 11 No position Draft legislation The Veterans Mental Health...BEFORE THE COMMITTEE ON VETERANS AFFAIRS UNITED STATES SENATE ON PENDING AND DRAFT LEGISLATION March 11 2025 Chairman Moran Ranking Member Blumenthal and distinguished members of this committee on behalf of...
medical centers with the highest unmet need such as in our highly rural sites By the end of fiscal year 2026 all VA medical centers are re quired to have a Medical Foster Home program Also we are piloting a...
should take for a vet eran s appointment to be scheduled And the VA also must place special emphasis on hiring non clin ical support staff VA cannot schedule if it does not have the med ical support assistants...metrics and they include direct care wait times from the date of request for new patients time to schedule community care appointments and veteran satisfaction with the timeliness of care VA has taken several...can call 24 7 to talk to a nurse about a health concern a medical support assistant to help with scheduling an appointment a pharmacist to reorder a prescription when need ed and if needed to meet a provider...
facilities on three North Star metrics 1 Direct care wait times from the date of request 2 Time to schedule community care appointments and 3 Veteran satisfaction with timely care Already VA has taken several...can call 24 7 to talk to a nurse about a health concern a medical support assistant to help with scheduling an appointment a pharmacist to reorder a prescription and in some cases when clinically appropriate...historically comprise only between 10 and 15 of all completed appointments they typically take longer to schedule in both direct and community care Accordingly we are focusing our North Star improvement efforts...
sites that offer MFH in 44 States and territories and VA plans to expand to all VAMCs by the end of 2025 The small care environment support and education provided by the MFH and HBPC teams enable Veterans...new HBPC teams this expansion will be focused on the VAMCs with the highest unmet need By end of FY 2026 all VAMCs will be required to have an MFH Program Also VA is testing a new model of homemaker home...
construction of a new SCI D acute and long term center at San Diego California is currently underway and scheduled to be completed in June 2024 If all goes well it would add another 20 long term care beds to VA...Health Care System in Dallas Texas is currently in the bid solicitation phase with construction scheduled to start later this fall Construction was originally projected to begin this April but these projects...funding and delivery system If everything stays on track the project could be completed sometime in 2026 However the North Texas project also includes shell space for an additional 30 long term care beds...
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