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Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) Eric K. Shinseki today announced a joint effort to expand health care delivery to veterans living in rural areas.  The agreement between the two [...] Read More

SOURCE: www.va.gov Two U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs public awareness campaigns designed to help Veterans who seek mental health care assistance have received forty-three industry and association awards for communication and design excellence. “We are pleased that these campaigns have [...] Read More

SOURCE: www.opm.gov OPM (Office of Personnel Management) announced that in 2011, federal employees with disabilities represented 7.41 percent of the overall workforce and 11 percent when the figures include veterans who are 30 percent or more disabled. The report also [...] Read More

The VA has released a report illustrating improvement in gender disparities in 12 out of 14 Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS) measures. These measures are used by 90 percent of America’s health plans to measure performance on important [...] Read More

Attorney General, Eric Holder and Secretary of Health and Human Services, Kathleen Sebelius have announced a partnership between federal and state officials, as well as several private health insurers to prevent health care fraud. The effort is voluntary and represents [...] Read More

Source: whitehouse.gov President Obama has made helping veterans find civilian employment and reintegrate into our nation’s workforce and economy a top priority.  In November 2011, the President signed into law the Returning Heroes Tax Credit, which provides businesses that hire [...] Read More

Source: hhs.gov Benefits and Protections for the Middle Class: The Affordable Care Act includes numerous provisions to keep health care costs low, promote prevention, and hold insurance companies accountable.  If you’re one of the 250 million Americans who already have [...] Read More

As a part of a long-term health study, at the end of this month, the VA will be contacting the first Gulf War Veterans for the third time since the end of that conflict. Says Secretary Shinseki, “Our message to [...] Read More

Jiaxi Qiu and Lu Hui Qiu have been arrested for practicing medicine without licenses in Chinatown, NY.  They were charged with examining and treating patients by injecting them with unknown substances as well as giving them a variety of unidentified [...] Read More

In response to a May 11, 2012, vote in the House of Representatives to impose a 5 percent payroll tax on middle-class federal workers, President of the National Active and Retired Federal Employees Association (NARFE) issued the following statement: “It [...] Read More