Administrators at the VA Maine Healthcare-Togus campus regularly train to deal with different scenarios. They have not seen anything like this before.
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Maine veterans can now receive urgent care without a referral through VA-connected facilities
Provisions of the MISSION Act get veterans access to more convenient care.
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Golden seeks $5 million to bolster VA’s mental health care
2nd District congressman wants inpatient beds in Maine for vets facing a crisis.
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New VA health care director wants to make Maine a model for other states
Tracye Davis returns to see projects she planned during her previous stint coming to fruition.
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Angus King supports push for cannabis for veterans
PORTLAND (AP) — Maine’s independent senator says he is getting behind an effort to research how medicinal cannabis could help veterans. Sen. Angus King is part of a bipartisan group of legislators that wants to authorize the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to advance research about the safety and efficacy of medicinal cannabis for veterans […]
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Donald Trump fires VA secretary, names White House doctor to the post
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is firing Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin and replacing him with the White House doctor in the wake of a bruising ethics scandal and a mounting rebellion within the VA. Trump tweets that he intends to nominate “highly respected Admiral Ronny L. Jackson, MD, as the new Secretary of […]
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Suspected drug thefts persist at Veterans Affairs centers
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal authorities are investigating dozens of new cases of possible opioid and other drug theft by employees at Veterans Affairs hospitals, a sign the problem isn’t going away as more prescriptions disappear. Data obtained by The Associated Press show 36 criminal investigations opened by the VA inspector general’s office from Oct. 1 […]
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King backs bill to expedite vets' appeals to Veterans Affairs
PORTLAND — A group of senators including Maine’s Sen. Angus King wants to overhaul the way the federal Department of Veterans Affairs handles appeals. King, an independent, is joining Democratic Sens. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut and Jon Tester of Montana on the legislation. The senators say more than 450,000 appeals are pending before the VA […]
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Drugs vanish at some Veterans Affairs hospitals
The Veterans Affairs Department in Washington. Federal authorities are stepping up investigations at Department of Veterans Affairs medical centers due to a sharp increase in opioid theft, missing prescriptions or unauthorized drug use by VA employees since 2009, according to government data obtained by The Associated Press. WASHINGTON — Federal authorities are stepping up investigations […]
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Federal report: Togus mishandled referrals for veterans’ care
AUGUSTA — Maine’s Veterans Affairs health care system mishandled referrals for mental health services and failed to properly document all requests for that care, leaving some patients without needed services, according to a federal investigation released Wednesday. The VA Maine Healthcare System’s management of mental health services “made it difficult to track whether patients’ requests […]