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Workers wearing red shirts and surgical face masks hold protest signs outside the VA.
Posted inCOVID-19, Returning Home to Battle

3 VA health workers have died of COVID-19. 776 have tested positive.

by Aaron Glantz April 7, 2020June 30, 2021

The casualties come in the wake of reporting that staff were short of protective masks and gloves and were required to report to work sick.

A medical worker walks past a line of workers and visitors
Posted inCOVID-19

Trump says he’s protecting veterans. VA workers say they’re forced to work without safety precautions.

by Aaron Glantz March 23, 2020June 30, 2021

Department of Veterans Affairs health workers exposed to COVID-19 are being forced to come to work without being tested for the virus, so long as they are not showing symptoms.

Posted inAccountability, Benefits, Education, Returning Home to Battle, The Trump Era

Trump administration now says it won’t scrap VA anti-corruption law

by Aaron Glantz October 11, 2017October 13, 2017

“Such a waiver would foster a culture of corruption in the VA,” said Melissa Bryant, political director of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America.

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Posted inAccountability, Benefits, Returning Home to Battle, The Trump Era

5th senator slams blanket ethics waiver on for-profit college payments

by Aaron Glantz October 9, 2017October 10, 2017

The move, Sen. Tom Carper writes, represents “a drastic departure from the intent of Congress and weakens important ethics standards.”

Posted inHealth Care for Veterans, Opiates, Returning Home to Battle

Obama signs new opiate safety law for veterans

by Aaron Glantz July 22, 2016July 25, 2016

President Barack Obama has signed sweeping new narcotics reforms into law that dramatically change the way the Department of Veterans Affairs dispenses and monitors dangerous and addictive opiates.

Posted inEducation, Returning Home to Battle

Defense Department now reviewing University of Phoenix recruiting

by Bobby Caina Calvan August 6, 2015June 30, 2021

The Defense Department has confirmed that it is reviewing whether recruitment practices by the University of Phoenix, the country’s largest benefactor of GI Bill funds, comply with federal law.

Posted inBenefits, Education, Returning Home to Battle

Senators seek investigation of GI Bill funds at unaccredited schools

by Aaron Glantz July 20, 2015June 30, 2021

Eight U.S. senators are demanding that the Department of Veterans Affairs launch an inquiry into revelations that GI Bill tuition subsidies have flowed to questionable unaccredited schools.

Posted inOpiates, Returning Home to Battle

Congressional hearing reveals 4 more deaths at Tomah, Wisconsin, VA

by Aaron Glantz March 30, 2015June 30, 2021

A congressional hearing today revealed more unexpected deaths at the Tomah, Wisconsin, VA – known as “Candy Land” for the ease with which narcotic painkillers were prescribed – during Dr. David Houlihan’s decade as the hospital’s chief of staff.

Posted inOpiates, Returning Home to Battle

Nearly 100,000 veterans prescribed dangerous tranquilizer-opiate combo

by Aaron Glantz March 26, 2015June 30, 2021

Nearly 100,000 veterans currently are receiving prescriptions for both tranquilizers and narcotic painkillers from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, a potentially deadly combination that is explicitly discouraged by agency guidelines.

Posted inHealth Care for Veterans, Opiates, Returning Home to Battle

Wisconsin VA’s opiate overprescription harmed patients, report finds

by Aaron Glantz March 10, 2015June 30, 2021

A preliminary report by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs revealed that runaway opiate prescriptions and a culture of fear created by hospital leadership compromised patient care and harmed the staff at the Tomah, Wisconsin, VA.

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