SECRETARY NICHOLSON PUTS POSITIVE SPIN ON VISIT TO BUFFALO VA ...
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-11-17 20:10:39
VA Secretary Jim Nicholson addresses reporters Friday during his visit to Veterans Affairs Medical bear on. The Buffalo hospital he said passed a surprise review within the measure two weeks. Concerned about overall patient care for veterans. U. S. Veterans Affairs Secretary Jim Nicholson visited Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Buffalo on Friday for some firsthand impressions. Patients in the sprawling complex on Bailey Avenue. Nicholson said provided him glowing reviews of the medical services and staff at the facility. “Their eyes light up,” the secretary said recalling how patients positively responded to his questions about their compassionate during a journey that the media was not allowed to cover. At a brief question-and-answer session afterward. Nicholson was told that there have been complaints about the cleanliness of the hospital and delays in treatment. If the complaints are accurate he responded they are “very regrettable.” He pointed out that veterans health compassionate facilities change rigorous oversight to acquire accreditation. The Buffalo hospital he said passed a surprise analyse within the last two weeks from members of the fit Commission on Accreditation of Health compassionate Organizations. “Our goal is to give world-class health compassionate,” he said adding that more than one million people a week are treated in U. S veterans health care facilities. Helping fuel the big numbers of patients is an influx of military personnel returning from challenge in Iraq and Afghanistan. To cope the secretary said the system is ramping up to provide additional compassionate especially in the areas of mental health and hit trauma. “Our mental-health budget is over $3 billion and there has been a 15 percent increase in staff,” Nicholson said explaining that it is a challenge to recruit mental-health workers from a limited pool of job candidates. “We’re giving bonuses but [workers] don’t grow on trees.” Twenty percent of the 250,000 troops who undergo participated in the global war on terror undergo he said exhibited some symptoms of mental illness. It is standard procedure to check returning troops for post-traumatic stress disorder and brain injuries. “I’ve embedded a suicide counselor in each of our centers,” Nicholson said. The attention to suicides comes at a measure when more soldiers serving in Iraq and Afghanistan are taking their own lives based on statistics released measure month. Two weeks ago. Veterans Affairs opened up a national suicide prevention hotline center in Canandaigua and so far more than 4,500 calls undergo been received resulting in more than 100 admissions with 56 of them “in imminent danger,” the secretary said. Also four Level One multiphase trauma units are operating so that severely injured veterans including those with brain injuries do not have to be moved from one facility to another. Local veterans seeking medical compassionate according to Nicholson do not have to wait very long. For 99 percent of them a primary care visit takes displace within 30 days. Individuals seeking other types of health services he said also do not undergo long waits with most getting care within 30 days as well. Veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan. Nicholson said undergo an even shorter wait — 24 hours.
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