Mar 17, 2018
A 32-year veteran of the Army has been named the new director of the Fayetteville Veterans Affairs Medical Center. James Laterza, who retired from the Army last summer, has been appointed to the job at the VA. As director, he will oversee delivery of health care to...
Mar 17, 2018
Kewchang Lee, a psychiatrist who oversees mental health consultations at the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center, is not used to being studied. But in recent weeks, Lee signed up to be part of a first-of-its-kind experiment that is playing out in 21 VA...
Mar 15, 2018
The bacteria that causes Legionnaires’ disease was found in two areas of Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, prompting officials to order decontamination of the hospital’s water system. The hospital findings come a week after the Army announced it had...
Mar 14, 2018
MOAA urged lawmakers to strike a bipartisan deal to replace VA Choice and consolidate existing community-care programs during a Wednesday joint House-Senate hearing on Capitol Hill. A year has passed without an agreement in Congress to replace the VA Choice program,...
Mar 13, 2018
The use of Other Transaction Authority (OTA) may be getting a lot of attention across the federal community as a way to address the shortcomings of the Federal Acquisition Regulations, but the Veterans Affairs Department may have found a better way that doesn’t raise...
Mar 13, 2018
President Trump is considering replacing embattled Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin with Energy Secretary Rick Perry. A source familiar with the White House discussions tells the Associated Press that Trump has floated the notion of the Cabinet reshuffle as a...
Mar 9, 2018
In a recent decision, the U.S. Small Business Administration’s (“SBA”) Office of Hearing and Appeals (“OHA”) affirmed the widely-understood interpretation of the SBA regulations that a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business Concern...
Mar 8, 2018
The Department of Veterans Affairs has joined the bandwagon of government agencies looking for outside innovators to help update its health technology systems. In February, it became easier for private citizens to become involved when the department launched...
Mar 7, 2018
Veterans Affairs Secretary David J. Shulkin on Wednesday announced an overhaul of the senior leadership overseeing almost two dozen troubled hospitals across the country following the release of a searing investigation into what the agency watchdog said were...
Mar 5, 2018
On Jan. 26, the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command hosted Lt. Gen. Paul A. Ostrowski, Army Acquisition Corps military deputy/director, Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army (Acquisition, Logistics and Technology), for an Acquisition Roadshow...
Mar 1, 2018
In a year of change within the Military Health System, parents can rest assured that industry experts, physicians, and leaders have been working diligently to improve pediatric care across the enterprise. The Defense Health Board, made up of nationally recognized...
