WASHINGTON — The Veterans Community Care Program was established to help veterans secure appointments with outside providers when they can't receive care from a Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) ...

Veterans seeking care in the Department of Veterans Affairs' community care program in 30 specialties will not have to get reauthorization from the VA for a year under a new policy announced by the ...

WASHINGTON — Nine years after the 2014 wait time scandal, veteran access to timely health care is still a big challenge for the Department of Veterans Affairs. The Veterans Health Administration ...

MANKATO — Area residents who’ve gone that extra mile by serving in the U.S. military now have less traveling to do when in need of psychiatry services. A local mental health center recently was ...

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Last week, the House Committee on Veterans Affairs Subcommittee on Health invited Forge Health leadership to provide expert testimony on obstacles to the effective use of ...

The data breach the Department of Veterans Affairs announced earlier this week exposed personal information for 46,000 veterans, but it also hit several thousand community care providers that ...

WASHINGTON — Nine Republican senators have written a letter to Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary Denis McDonough urging the agency fulfill its promise to provide health care to veterans in a ...

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 ...

Before the change, which went into effect Monday, VA community care specialty referrals were reevaluated every 90 to 180 days, according to the department. Physicians are in short supply. They are ...