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Vet News: Nicholson Praises SBA’s Patriot Express Loans
WASHINGTON -- With nearly a quarter of newly discharged Veterans considering starting their own businesses, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Jim Nicholson praised a new Small Business Administration venture to make business ownership easier for all Veterans.
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Vet News: Nicholson Praises SBA’s Patriot Express Loans
WASHINGTON -- With nearly a quarter of newly discharged Veterans considering starting their own businesses, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Jim Nicholson praised a new Small Business Administration venture to make business ownership easier for all Veterans.
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Vet News: Petraeus Not Interested in Presidency
WASHINGTON - President Bush’s top Iraq war commander said Sunday that as far as he knows, his command performances now and in the future will be strictly military, not political.
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Vet News: Peake Sworn in As VA Secretary
WASHINGTON – In a ceremony today Dr. James B. Peake, a combat veteran of the Vietnam War and former Army Surgeon General, was sworn in by President George W. Bush as the nation’s sixth Secretary of Veterans Affairs.
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Vet News: VA Boosts Services and Research in Spinal Cord Injury
MILWAUKEE – During a ground-breaking ceremony today for a world-class facility for spinal cord injuries, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Jim Nicholson committed the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to expand programs and open new facilities for seriously disabled Veterans with spinal cord injuries.
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Vet News: VA To Host PTSD Research Conference
WASHINGTON -- Acting Secretary of Veterans Affairs Gordon H. Mansfield announced today the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) will convene a “consensus conference” with the Department of Defense and the National Institutes of Health to improve the designs and methodologies all three agencies will use in future research studies regarding Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).
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Vet News: VA Reaches Out to Former Prisoners of War
WASHINGTON - Do you know any former prisoners of war (POW) or their family members? If so, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) needs your help.
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Vet News: Fisher House Dedicated at Tampa VA Medical Center
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is now better able to care for the families of injured military servicemen and women recuperating at the James A. Haley Veterans’ Hospital. The newest Fisher House, dedicated August 6 at the Tampa facility, will provide families free lodging, making it easier to participate in the care and recovery of their loved ones.
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Vet News: Nicholson to Leave VA and Return to the Private Sector
Secretary of Veterans Affairs, Jim Nicholson announced today he has tendered his resignation to President George W. Bush, effective no later than October 1, 2007.
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Vet News: VA Brings Mental Health Programs to Primary Care Settings
WASHINGTON -- Addressing a special mental health forum with the top clinicians and researchers from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Secretary of Veterans Affairs Jim Nicholson announced plans to begin locating some of the Department’s mental health programs closer to places where primary care is provided.
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Vet News: VA Secretary Praises Dole-Shalala Panel
WASHINGTON -- Secretary of Veterans Affairs Jim Nicholson today thanked the members of a special presidential commission for their work examining the federal government’s response to the health care needs of returning combat Veterans.
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Vet News: VA Medical Centers Extending Hours
WASHINGTON -- In order to provide more health care for more Veterans, especially mental health services, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Jim Nicholson has directed the 153 medical centers of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to keep their doors open longer.
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Vet News: VA Consolidated Mail-out Pharmacy Enhanced
WASHINGTON -- With mail-out pharmaceuticals for Veterans already a $3 billion annual operation for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), the department made a major expansion in its future capability with the dedication June 11 of a new building and improved production system for the Dallas VA Consolidated Mail Outpatient Pharmacy.
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Vet News: Mental Health Experts Convene for Summit
WASHINGTON -- To ensure returning combat Veterans are receiving the latest, world-class mental health care, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is convening a four-day meeting here in July of mental health clinicians and researchers from across the country.
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