There's a new cliche being parroted at congressional hearings on veterans' affairs these days: "Community care is VA care." Republican policymakers are intimating that private health care provided to ...

Doug Collins, President Donald Trump's nominee for secretary of Veterans Affairs, pledged to preserve the VA's health care system but also improve medical services for veterans through community care ...

In September, three months after signing the mammoth VA Mission Act, President Donald Trump claimed in a speech that soon "if a veteran can't get the care they need from the VA in a timely fashion, ...

The Committee concurs with the IG and GAO regarding the long history of challenges with regard to VA community care programs. The Committee also concurs with VA's assessment about the need to ...

WATERLOO, Iowa — John-Paul Sager appreciates the care he has received at Department of Veterans Affairs hospitals and clinics, but he thinks it should be easier for veterans like him to use their ...

The Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) has long outsourced care for veterans that the VA could not provide and for veterans’ emergency care (community care). Over the past decade, the VA has ...

Nine months after federal regulators revealed VA Loma Linda failed to oversee a company that encountered serious staffing shortages after assuming management of five outpatient clinics, the health ...

WASHINGTON — Veterans can get quicker emergency medical exams with a Department of Veterans Affairs nurse under a new program that aims to keep patients out of non-VA emergency rooms and urgent care ...

Timely access to outpatient care was a primary driver behind the Department of Veterans Affairs’ (VA’s) increased purchase of community-based care under the Veterans Access, Choice, and Accountability ...

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The Department of Veterans Affairs has transferred nearly $2 billion in funding for its health care system to pay for care from private providers, the agency told CNN. The reallocation represents a ...

As the news continues to be dominated by the COVID-19, one important aspect of the conversation is how the illness is impacting veterans, as well as the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). Although ...