Acting Deputy Secretary of Veterans Affairs Pamela Powers Visited Orlando: Here’s What She Said About Their Pandemic Response
• Powers said the VA has enough PPE and ICU beds in case of a second surge.
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• Powers said the VA has enough PPE and ICU beds in case of a second surge.
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• Veterans used the office shared by Representatives Stephanie Murphy and Darren Soto to get help enrolling in Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security benefits.
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• They expect to be able to treat more than 100 patients in the first year.
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• WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal authorities are stepping up investigations at Department of Veterans Affairs hospitals due to a sharp increase in opioid theft, missing prescriptions or unauthorized drug use by VA employees since 2009.
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• Chairman of the House Committee on Veterans Affairs Jeff Miller led the push to create the Veterans Choice program, and cooperated with his ideological opposite, Sen. Bernie Sanders, to get it passed. The Florida Republican has been among the VA’s leading critics, especially for what he considers mismanagement of the choice program and a reluctance to fire bad VA staff.
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• The number of homeless veterans in Central Florida has fallen dramatically in the last four years. According to a report released Wednesday, the number of homeless veterans in Orange, Osceola and Seminole Counties went from 690 to about 300.
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• “We don’t see foreign policy events, the crisis in the Middle East, even border security here at home appearing in campaign ads to nearly the same degree,” says one political ad expert.
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