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		<title>VA Targets $39 Million for Homeless Veterans</title>
		<link>http://veteransnewsbureau.com/2010/03/11/va-targets-39-million-for-homeless-veterans/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:43:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON (March 11, 2010) &#8211; The Department of Veterans Affairs is allocating $39 million to fund about 2,200 new transitional housing beds through grants to local providers.
&#8220;VA is committed to ending the cycle of homelessness among Veterans,&#8221; said Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric K. Shinseki. &#8220;We will use every tool at our disposal &#8211; health [...]]]></description>
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		<title>VA Details Plan to Streamline Department with Goal of Improved Services and Taxpayer Savings</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:08:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Washington, DC &#8211; Today, House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs Chairman Bob Filner (D-CA) conducted a hearing to better understand the challenges that face the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) in the future and what is needed to transform the agency into a 21st century organization.  VA Secretary Eric K. Shinseki offered his assessment of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>VA Claims Drop in Homeless Veterans</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:27:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The number of Veterans homeless on a typical night dropped 18 percent as the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) entered the second year of its campaign to eliminate homelessness among Veterans within five years.
“It will take the dedication, creativity and hard work of many parts of American society to end homelessness among Veterans,” said Secretary [...]]]></description>
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		<title>VA to Automate its Agent Orange Claims Process</title>
		<link>http://veteransnewsbureau.com/2010/03/09/va-to-automate-its-agent-orange-claims-process/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:59:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — The Department of Veterans Affairs plans to announce today that it will fully automate how it pays claims for illnesses related to exposure to the chemical Agent Orange to keep an overburdened system from collapse.
It is the department&#8217;s first effort at automating claims processing in its 80-year history, says VA chief technology officer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>VA/DOD Expand Electronic Health Information Pilot to Eastern Virginia</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:19:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Department of Veterans Affairs and Department of Defense today announced the next phase of the Virtual Lifetime Electronic Record (VLER) Health Communities Program. This initiative improves care and services to our nation’s heroes by sharing health information using the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN) developed under the leadership of the Department of Health and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Olympic Gold Medalist Bode Miller and Olympian Casey Puckett to Join Assistant Secretary Tammy Duckworth at VA&#8217;s National Disabled Veterans Winter Sports Clinic</title>
		<link>http://veteransnewsbureau.com/2010/03/05/olympic-gold-medalist-bode-miller-and-olympian-casey-puckett-to-join-assistant-secretary-tammy-duckworth-at-vas-national-disabled-veterans-winter-sports-clinic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 21:27:20 +0000</pubDate>
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On Wednesday, March 31, Olympic Gold Medalist and World Champion Alpine skier Bode Miller and Olympian Casey Puckett will join Assistant Secretary of Veterans Affairs L. Tammy Duckworth at the National Disabled Veterans Winter Sports Clinic in Snowmass Village, Colo.  The Clinic, in its 24th year, teaches adaptive Alpine and Nordic skiing to more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>VA Agrees to Review Gulf War Illness Claims</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 13:35:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unable to ignore the sheer number of complaints, the Department of Veterans Affairs has decided to revisit the disability claims of thousands of veterans of the Gulf War. According to advocacy group Veterans for Common Sense, more than 200,000 military personnel who served in the 1990-1991 conflict have reported multi-symptom illnesses. The VA’s Gulf War [...]]]></description>
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		<title>VA News &#8211; Week of March 1, 2010</title>
		<link>http://veteransnewsbureau.com/2010/03/03/va-news-week-of-march-1-2010/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 22:50:16 +0000</pubDate>
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