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26 unusual facts about United States Department of Veterans Affairs


Arkansas River Trail

They were chosen as a strategic vantage point on which to build Fort Logan H. Roots, which eventually became a hospital in the Department of Veterans Affairs system.

Cabarrus County, North Carolina

There are no VA hospitals or military installations in the county.

Citadel of Besançon

These pieces were collected and lined by file number and registered numbers of all the women deported from France, except deported Jewish-, from various sources: registers nuts prison French and German registries Ravensbrück lists of Department of Veterans Affairs, lists deported by themselves-for example revision.

City Bar Justice Center

The Veterans Assistance Project recruits, trains and mentors volunteer attorneys to provide pro bono assistance to veterans in connections with the filing of disability benefits claims before the New York City Regional Office of the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Clyde L. Garrett

-- A grammar fix may be needed here. -->Technical assistant, Veterans Administration, Washington, D.C., and Dallas, Texas from 1949 to 1950.

Debt-to-income ratio

It was not until that era that the FHA and the VA (through the G.I. Bill) led the creation of a mass market in 30-year, fixed-rate, amortized mortgages.

Ed Hearne

Following his playing career, he worked as a guard at the Veterans Affairs Complex in Los Angeles.

Edwin S. Shneidman

As an intern, he studied schizophrenia, then thought to be environmentally caused, at the Veterans Administration hospital in Brentwood|.

Elliot Griffin Thomas

From 1954-59, Thomas worked as a pharmacist with the Veterans Administration in Erie, Pennsylvania, where he also studied part-time at Gannon College, majoring in Business Administration.

Gerald Domingue

Over the course of his thirty-nine-year career, Domingue received funding from the National Institutes of Health, Veterans Administration, and a variety of national and international research foundations; served on grant review committees of these agencies as well as consultant to various journal review boards.

Gustave Marinius Heiss

From 1947 to 1955 he worked as chief of vocational rehabilitation and education at the Veterans Administration.

Hospital police

The United States Department of Veterans Affairs, along with many state and municipal owned hospitals, have full service law enforcement agencies, while private non-profit hospitals usually have special police or constables.

Isaiah Mays

In 2001, the marker was replaced with an official United States Department of Veterans Affairs headstone which stated his name, service history, and his status as a Medal of Honor recipient.

Lease purchase contract

These contracts are commonly used where a buyer wants to purchase a home, but due to credit issues would not qualify for a conventional mortgage and does not wish to, or would not qualify, for FHA or VA financing.

M*A*S*H Goes to Maine

Having left the Army, Hawkeye is established to be working for the Veterans Administration.

Poni Adams

He later served as the last administrator for the Veterans Administration before the VA became a cabinet department during Ronald Reagan's presidential term.

QuinStreet

In addition, the company agreed to pay $2.5 million to the states involved as part of a consumer protection settlement with what had expanded to 20 state Attorneys General, and turn over the website GIBill.com to the United States Department of Veterans Affairs to settle the civil investigation.

Streamline refinancing

The Federal Housing Administration and VA do not permit the refinancing of a home unless there is a net benefit to the borrower.

United States Department of Veterans Affairs

The new GI Bill authored by Sen. Jim Webb (D-VA) doubled GI Bill college benefits while providing a 13-week extension to federal unemployment benefits.

Veteran service organizations such as the American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, and Disabled American Veterans, as well as state-operated Veterans Affairs offices and County Veteran Service Officers (CVSO), have been known to assist veterans in the process of getting care from the VA.

Further educational assistance acts were passed for the benefit of veterans of the Korean War, the Vietnam Era, the introduction of an "all-volunteer force" in the 1970s (following the end of conscription in the United States in 1973), the Persian Gulf War, and those who served following the attacks of September 11, 2001.

In 1998, the Institute of Medicine began a series of studies to respond to requests from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and Congress for an examination of the health effects of potentially harmful agents to which Gulf War veterans might have been exposed.

VA Butler Healthcare

VA Butler Healthcare is a Health Care Center operated by the Department of Veteran Affairs.

Vernice Ferguson

She was the nursing department head at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center for several years, then served as a nurse executive with the United States Department of Veterans Affairs for twelve years.

Vetsprevail

CBT is currently considered the standard of care for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and depression by the Department of Veteran Affairs.

Yield spread premium

Update 11/25/2008 - Yield Spread Premiums are most commonly used by the Government Sponsored Enterprises (Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac) as well as the FHA and VA loan programs to 'steer' borrowers into specific tranches of interest rate most advantageous to the marketplace through specific cash incentives to the mortgage originator.


Bernard Glueck, Sr.

After retiring in 1947, Glueck continued to work for the Veterans Administration, the University of North Carolina, and John Umstead Hospital in Butner, North Carolina.

Captain James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center

The Captain James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center (FHCC), opened Oct. 1, 2010, and is the United States' first federal health care center that partners the United States Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of Defense into a single, fully integrated federal health care facility.

Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2012

The Act provides $109 million for the Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Inspector General, the same amount as the previous year and the same amount as the President’s request.

Geriatric neurology

In 1991 Advanced Fellowship Program in Geriatric Neurology was started by the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Global Assessment of Functioning

GAF levels are commonly used by the Veterans Benefits Administration of the United States Department of Veterans Affairs in determining the appropriate level of disability compensation to be paid to veterans who suffer from service connected psychiatric disorders.

Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes

As of 2007, the editors-in-chief are David D. Ho (Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center), Paul Volberding (San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center) and William Blattner (University of Maryland, Baltimore).

Michael P. Riccards

Riccards' efforts with Congress and the Department of Veterans Affairs to help veterans enroll in CLEP courses were also successful.

Philippines–United States relations

Benefits to Filipinos from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and the Social Security Administration totaled $297,389,415 in 2006.

Sexual orientation and the United States military

On July 19, 2013, Veterans Administration (VA) Secretary Eric Shinseki noted in a letter about the case that the statutory definitions of "spouse" and "surviving spouse" had yet to be invalidated by a court.

The Blue Button

Several Federal agencies, including the Departments of Defense, Health and Human Services, and Veterans Affairs, implemented this capability for their beneficiaries.

Theodore H. Blau

Dr. Blau earned his bachelor's, master's and Ph.D. degrees from Pennsylvania State University and completed his residency at the Veterans Administration hospital in Perry Point, Maryland.