Gulf Coast Veterans Given Access to Navy's Pensacola Hospital, as VA Seeks Ways to Treat More Patients Thirty-seven thousand veterans in the area will now be able to receive care at the hospital, alleviating a two-hour drive for...
Transgender Veterans Sue to Force VA to Cover Gender-Affirmation Surgeries The Transgender American Veterans Association, or TAVA, filed a lawsuit in federal court seeking to compel the VA to cover...
Millions of Vets Got Health Care and Benefits Under the PACT Act. Thousands Left Out Want the Same Chance. Legislation passed in 2022 expanded benefits for former troops sickened by burn pits, Agent Orange and contaminated water at...
VA Sued After Vet Died While Waiting for Heart Surgery George Walker died in 2016 while on a surgical wait list for a new heart valve at the VA Puget Sound Health Care System.
VA Hospital Missed a Lung Cancer Diagnosis, Suit Claims. It Settled for $850,000 William Whitaker was 64 when he died in March 2022, more than 20 months after an initial VA hospital CT scan showed a small...
'Model' for Veterans Care Takes Shape at Massachusetts Veterans Home at Holyoke The foundation of the new $483 million Massachusetts Veterans Home at Holyoke is nearly complete, and the cranes are already...
VA Nominee Wilkie Pledges No 'Privatization' of Vets Health Care At his confirmation hearing, Robert Wilkie also rejected allegations that he supported "racially divisive" issues.
VA Surge Operations Resulted in Increased Appointments and Reduced Wait Times, Department Says The efforts, known as "Access Sprints," also opened up VA appointments for those waiting for care in the community.
Lawsuit Alleging Racial Bias in VA Benefits Decisions Allowed to Move Forward by Federal Judge The lawsuit at issue was filed by a Vietnam veteran who alleges that the VA spent decades improperly denying his claims for...
The Army Has Officially Deployed Laser Weapons Overseas to Combat Enemy Drones A pair of laser weapons has been deployed by the Army to an undisclosed location overseas to blast incoming enemy drones out...
Fired After 6 Months: Army Sacks Commander of Germany Unit Meant to Bolster NATO Against Russia Lt. Col. Eric Ackles, commander of 1st Battalion, 57th Air Defense Artillery Regiment, was relieved of command, the service...
Toxic Exposure Screenings: Vets Report Spotty Follow-Up on Questionnaire Meant to Boost Health Care and Benefits Rolled out with great fanfare in November 2022, toxic exposure screenings for all VA patients were mandated by the PACT Act...
Feds Settle Case for $2 Million After Skydiving Plane Took Out Marine Corps Osprey on Runway Nearly four years after a civilian skydiving aircraft collided with a Marine Corps MV-22 Osprey sitting on a San Diego runway...
Reports of Mediocre Disability Exams by VA Contractors Prompts Senator's Demand for Answers A prominent Democratic senator is demanding the Department of Veterans Affairs review the quality of its privatized...