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Kerri Drennan
Pamela Hall
Latresa Robb
CURRENT HEALTH POLICIES Combat injuries
PTSDTBI
Suicide Base realignment and closure/integration Personnel Tobacco use Emergency contraception
ORGANIZATION OF CARE
Direct Care:
Care for active duty personnel
Care for wounded military
TRICARE:
Health benefit plan for military
beneficiaries
ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE OF
MILITARY HEALTH SERVICES President
Secretary of defense
Assistant Secretary of Defense
Surgeons General
Air Force Medical Facilities
Army Medical Facilities
Navy Medical Facilities
FINANCING Funding for Veterans Affairs (VA)
-presidential and congressional
authorization
-Office of Management and Budget
disbursement
Commander-in-chief
President Obama
Secretary of Defense
Chuck Hagel
Assistant Secretary of Defense of Health Affairs
Dr. Jonathan Woodson
Head of the Department of Veterans Affairs
Sloan Gibson (replaced Eric Shinseki)
Congress
Tax payers
VALUES AND GOALS OF
STAKEHOLDERS
Military Readiness Mission
Health Care Benefits Mission
CONSUMERS:
Army Coast Guard
Air Force National Guard
Navy Reservists
Marines Families
Needs:
The care they were promised and benefits they have earned (President Obama)
Wants:
To live as normal life as anyone else (J.R. Martinez, actor and champion of Dancing with the Stars)
Mississippi State Veterans Affairs Board Free advice
State nursing homes
Education
Burial
Low interest mortgages
Assists in finding state job openings
1. No bonuses for government employees
2. Allow veterans easy access to hospitals which
currently receive Medicare and Medicaid
3. Build additional small clinics
4. Full practice authority for APRNs in VA system
Veterans Choice Act of 2014
Proposed: Senator John McCain, Arizona
Referred to committee
Senator Roger Wicker
Member of the Armed Services Committee
Served in Air Force and then Air Force Reserves
Retired from reserves 2004 with rank of lieutenant colonel
555 Dirksen Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20510
U. S. Representative Steven Palazzo
Marine Veteran of the Persian Gulf War
Member of the Mississippi National Guard
Washington DC, Office
331 Cannon House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
References Cannon, M., & Preble, C., (2014, June 16). The other veterans scandal. The New York
Times. Retrieved from http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/16 Elnitsky, C., Andresen, E., Clark, M., McGarity, S., Hall, C., & Kerns, R. (2013). Access to the
US Department of Veterans Affairs health system: self-reported barriers to care among returnees of Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom. BMC Health Services Research, 13498. Doi:10.1186/1472-6963-13-498
J. R. Martinez: All we want is an opportunity. (2013, Nov 11). Retrieved from website: http://newday.blog.cnn.com/2013/11/11/jr-martinez
Mason, D., Leavitt, J., & Chaffee, M., (Eds.). (2012). Policy & politics in nursing and health care (6th ed.). St. Louis, MO: Elsevier Saunders.
Military and veteran benefits. (2014). Retrieved from website: http://www.military.com/benefits
Shinseki resigns over growing VA scandal. (2014, May 30). Retrieved from website: http://foxnews.com/politics/2014/05/30
The White House, (2014).Veterans and military families. Retrieved from website: http://www.whitehouse.gov/issues/veterans
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, (2014). Retrieved from website: http://www.va.gov