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Former Veterans Affairs Chief Expands ArmadaHealth’s Healthcare Quality Expertise /EIN News/ -- Baltimore, Maryland, March 12, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 12, 2019 - Baltimore, Maryland - The Honorable David Shulkin, M.D., has joined the ArmadaHealth® Clinical Advisory Board as a Special Advisor to the Company. Dr. Shulkin will be a featured keynote speaker at the World Health Care Congress (WHCC) in Washington, D.C. on Sunday, April 28th, sponsored by ArmadaHealth. He will be interviewed by the healthcare journalist and Visiting Fellow at Robert J. Margolis Center for Health Policy, Duke University, Susan Dentzer, on the topic: Lessons for Leaders on How to Navigate Health Policy While Ensuring a Climate for Innovation in their Organizations. Dr. Shulkin brings to ArmadaHealth a distinguished career of leadership and accomplishments through his many roles in health systems, academic institutions, clinical practice, and government service, … [Read more...] about The Honorable David J. Shulkin, M.D., Joins ArmadaHealth Executive Committee

Sections SEARCH Skip to content Skip to site index U.S. Subscribe Log In Subscribe Log In Today's Paper Advertisement Supported by ByDave Philipps Aug. 10, 2018 A new secretary was sworn in at the Department of Veterans Affairs in late July, but the people actually in charge of the agency may not have changed, and they are not at the headquarters in Washington, but on the manicured grounds of Mar-a-Lago, President Trump’s West Palm Beach estate. A shadowy threesome known in the department as the “Mar-a-Lago crowd” has been quietly empowered by the president to help steer the veterans agency, and the men are exerting their influence in ways that affect millions of veterans, according to interviews with four former senior officials at the department and a report by the nonprofit investigative news organization ProPublica. The three men pushed the agency’s health care system toward the use of more privately … [Read more...] about Outside Influence: The Veterans Agency’s Shadowy Leadership

Express-News Editorial Board Published 5:10 pm CDT, Tuesday, September 25, 2018 Vietnam veteran Michael Thompson, 67, talks about his Navy experience during an interview at his home near Medina Lake May 31. Thompson is fighting the Veterans Administration to recognize Blue Water Navy veterans as victims of Agent Orange exposure. Thompson suffers from several ailments he ascribes to Agent Orange. less Vietnam veteran Michael Thompson, 67, talks about his Navy experience during an interview at his home near Medina Lake May 31. Thompson is fighting the Veterans Administration to recognize Blue Water Navy ... more Photo: JERRY LARA /San Antonio Express-News Photo: JERRY LARA /San Antonio Express-News Image 1 of / 1 Caption Close Image 1 of 1 Vietnam veteran Michael Thompson, 67, talks about his Navy experience during an … [Read more...] about Do right by Blue Water veterans

As a physician, my professional assessment is that the Department of Veterans Affairs has made significant progress over the past six months — but it still requires intensive care. In order to restore the VA’s health, we must strengthen its ability to provide timely and high quality medical care while improving experiences and outcomes for veterans.I believe the best way to achieve this goal is to build an integrated system that allows veterans to get the best health care possible, whether it comes from the VA or the private sector.This is not a novel idea. No health care provider delivers every treatment under the sun. Referral programs for patients to get care through outside providers (known as Choice or Community Care at the VA) are as essential to the medical profession as stethoscopes and tongue depressors. But VA attempts to offer veterans these options have frequently stirred controversy.Some critics complain that letting veterans choose where … [Read more...] about Veterans Affairs secretary: VA health care will not be privatized on our watch

Recently appointed Secretary of Veterans Affairs David J. Shulkin says he's working to expand veterans' choice to go outside the VA hospitals for care.Shulkin addressed reporters in a brief news conference at the Wilmington VA hospital in Elsmere after meeting with leaders of local veterans groups, hospital officials and Sen. Tom Carper, D-Delaware, on Monday."I am not in favor of privatizing because the VA is a national resource that veterans desperately need and we believe in," Shulkin said. "But I am in favor of getting veterans greater choice and to be able to work with what is best in the VA and what is best in the private sector."Shulkin was named VA undersecretary for health in 2015 before being confirmed as President Donald Trump's pick to lead the department earlier this year. In his campaign, Trump promised an overhaul of the VA, including allowing veterans greater leeway to seek care in the private sector.Currently, veterans can only do that if they can't get an … [Read more...] about VA secretary: Hospital choice for vets a top priority