VA Gets a Thumbs-Up

[Crabtownboy]

My experiences with the VA have been very positive.

It’s tough to imagine a more important someone to the VA than the American Legion, whose 2.4 million members makes it the nation’s largest veterans’ organization. The Legion visited 25 VA facilities last spring and, in a just-released report that includes assessments of each facility, praised the “high quality of care” that it found.

“Patient satisfaction has seen drastic improvements in the past decade,” the Legion reports. “However challenges still exist.”

Those challenges include vets’ delays in getting appointments, a lengthy hiring process (of growing concern because at some VA facilities half the workforce is at retirement age) and medical salaries that fall short of what’s available in the private sector.

Read more: http://nation.time.com/2012/10/04/va-gets-a-thumbs-up/#ixzz28PqvHqdf