January 31, 2022

New VA Office Tasked with Reducing Rural Health Problems for Native American Vets

Author: Jonathan Lehrfeld

The Department of Veterans Affairs is creating a new umbrella office to manage health care for all American Indian and Alaska Native veterans and expanding a new program to help rural Native American veterans more easily access VA health care, officials announced last week.
Both moves are part of VA Secretary Denis McDonough's effort to do "everything in our power to help tribal nations through the remainder of the pandemic," he told the first session of a multi day meeting of the VA's new Advis...