VA Mental Health Spending Is Faulted
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The Department of Veterans Affairs did not spend all of the extra $300 million it budgeted to increase mental health services and failed to keep track of how some of the money was used, a government report says.
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VICTORIA&#39;S health system is in crisis with revelations that mentally ill patients are being &quot;shackled&quot; to trolleys in public hospitals.
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Everything in Ward 3D East is locked, even the windows. Located inside the District of Columbia VA Medical Center, only three miles from the Veterans Affairs headquarters where national health policies are made, the psychiatric ward is a refuge for mentally ill homeless veterans and those plagued...
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A Virginia Supreme Court commission on mental health laws yesterday proposed loosening the state's standard for when mentally ill people should be committed to hospitals, an issue that has come to the fore since the Virginia Tech shootings last spring.
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Substandard care at a southern Illinois Veterans Affairs hospital may have contributed to 19 deaths over the past two years
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RICHMOND, Jan. 4 -- As GOP legislators unveiled proposals Friday to overhaul Virginia's mental health system, advocates for the mentally ill urged Gov. Timothy M. Kaine and the General Assembly to pump tens of millions of additional dollars into underfunded programs.
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Soldiers returning from war are finding it more difficult to get mental health treatment because military insurance is cutting payments to therapists, on top of already low reimbursement rates and a tangle of red tape.
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In the debate over Virginia's mental health system, they're called "consumers." Some of them call themselves survivors.
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A blistering audit claims the state&#39;s Medicaid system is in such disarray that 1.4 million pills are missing, thousands of people who are dead or lack Social Security numbers are getting millions of dollars in benefits and abuse of mental patients may be
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The ballooning cost of cancer treatment offers an example of how difficult it may be to rein in the nationâs runaway health care spending.
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Provider of in-patient mental health services continues to grow rapidly, but debt and dilution are reason for pause.
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The Department of Veterans Affairs this week doubled the disability benefits of a West Virginia soldier who has been fighting for more compensation since he returned from Iraq, and assured him that he will receive immediate access to more mental health services to treat his post-traumatic stress ...
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Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates vowed today to improve mental health care for service members, focusing the Pentagon's attention on a system described as deficient in dealing with such issues as psychological trauma and severe brain injuries resulting from the war in Iraq.
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Discrimination is being blamed for high rates of mental health problems amongst gay men and lesbians.
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The 2005 federal budget falls far short of meeting the health-care needs of this country&#39;s military veterans. Congress needs to look at budget priorities and find more money to help these deserving men and women.
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During Jim Nicholsonâs watch, the VA was embarrassed by revelations of poor care at Walter Reed medical center.
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Almost one-third of U.S. soldiers seeking government health care after returning from Iraq and Afghanistan are diagnosed with a mental problem, researchers said on Monday in a study calling for more emphasis on the mental wounds of war.