Milwaukie Providence Hospital calls police to remove sick man..claimed he was faking it

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36. VA is highly rated next to private systems ...

... When I got out of the Navy, I went to work at the Brecksville VA in Ohio. My first night I came home I told my wife no matter what happens do noy let me die in a VA hospital. When I was younger, it was known that the VA was where you went when you had no other place to go, generally a Vet went there to die.

Thirty years later I when I lost my 'Cadillac' insurance, I had no idea where to go with what turned out to be cancer.

My wife made out the papers, made me sign and I went along with it so she could see for herself what a pit VA was for herself.

They made an about face in those intervening thirty years.


first the mixed news:

https://www.militarytimes.com › news › 2018 › 10 › 04 › here-are-the-best-and-worst-va-medical-centers
Here are the best and worst VA medical centers - Military Times
Here are the best and worst VA medical centers. The St. Louis VA Medical Center is shown in May 2014. Department officials released their fiscal 2018 medical center ratings this week, showing ...

what every vet needs to read about the hospitals:

https://vaclaimsinsider.com › top-25-best-va-hospitals
Top 25 Best VA Hospitals According to Veteran Satisfaction Scores (The ...
Aug 29, 2022The VA Montana Healthcare System is the #18/25 VA hospitals according to veteran patients. 82% of patients ranked the quality of healthcare at either a 9 or a 10, with 10 being the highest, and 0 being the lowest. Facility Information: Fort Harrison VA Medical Center. 3687 Veterans Drive Fort Harrison, MT 59636-9703. Directions. Main phone: 406 ...


Where VA stands compared to other systems

https://www.research.va.gov › currents › 1219-Study-finds-VA-better-than-other-systems-at-rating-hospital-performance.cfm
Study finds VA better than other systems at rating hospital performance
The researchers found that VA does a better job of measuring hospital performance than other government and private-sector rating systems. Researchers from the James J. Peters VA Medical Center in the Bronx and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai in New York examined patient outcomes reported by U.S. News' America's Best Hospitals, Truven ...

https://mymilitarybenefits.com › benefits › va-healthcare-compare-non-va
How Does VA Healthcare Compare to Non-VA Healthcare? - MyMilitaryBenefits
A recent study published in the Journal of Surgical Research concluded that the surgical care provided by the VA was at least equivalent to non-VAs. Researchers compared 34 VA hospitals to 319 neighboring non-VA hospitals, looking at rates of post-surgery complications and patient satisfaction scores. The rates of complications were lower at VA ...

https://www.rand.org › news › press › 2018 › 04 › 26.html
VA Health System Generally Delivers Higher-Quality Care Than Other ...
April 26, 2018. The VA health care system performs similar to or better than non-VA systems on most measures of inpatient and outpatient care quality, although there is high variation in quality across individual VA facilities, according to a new RAND Corporation study. Examining a wide array of commonly used measures of health care quality ...

https://www.npr.org › 2023 › 06 › 14 › 1181827077 › va-hospitals-health-care
VA hospitals beat out private facilities, Medicare survey shows : NPR
Jun 14, 2023Charles Dharapak/AP. A nationwide Medicare survey released Wednesday found that veterans rated Veterans Affairs hospitals higher than private health care facilities in all 10 categories of patient ...


What I've found is that most people who have concerns about VA mean to advocate for us Vets. You have no idea how much that means to me. The trouble is it almost has nothing to do with the system but has to do with specific cases. And a lot of these cases are second or third hand.

Also a lot of these concerns has to with Agent Orange and Asbestos. The determinations in these cases are made by VA through records kept by the Army and the Navy. Some of these records are in complete and a huge amount of them were lost in the St Louis fire in the late 70s.

In the seventies the Pentegon felt that burn barrels and Agent Orange weren't harmful and the Air Force and Navy felt fire suppression chemicals and aircraft paint removal system were safe. They made/ very few records on it. How does an ex-serviceman proove he was exposed to burn barrels? Or prove there was Agent Orange contaminating aircraft The Navy felt until very recently that no blue water navel personel were exposed to AO, only brown water sailors and Marines.

Thankyou for caring about Vet.