by Christian Southards | Feb 24, 2022
On Feb. 15, the Department of Veterans Affairs announced it had submitted two proposals to the Federal Register potentially modernizing how the department evaluates veterans’ service-connected respiratory and auditory illnesses and mental disorders. Examples of the...
by Christian Southards | Feb 11, 2022
On Feb. 7, the Department of Housing and Urban Development published its newest Annual Homeless Assessment Report to Congress, with details suggesting black and Hispanic veterans are overrepresented among sheltered homeless veterans compared to the veteran population...
by Christian Southards | Jan 28, 2022
The Department of Veterans Affairs is expanding access to its Veteran-Directed Care, Medical Foster Home, and Home-Based Primary Care programs through 2026, the agency announced on Jan. 24. Each program is administered by the VA’s Office of Geriatric and Extended...
by Christian Southards | Jan 19, 2022
In twin reports made publicly available on Dec. 30, the Government Accountability Office found several opportunities, some of which address a lack of transparency and efficiency, to improve care and accountability at Department of Veterans Affairs Community Living...
by Christian Southards | Jan 18, 2022
In a Government Accountability Office report released on Jan. 13, “vulnerabilities” were detected in the Department of Veterans Affairs’ Veterans Community Care program that allowed hundreds of “potentially ineligible providers” to remain in the VA’s referral system....
