Veterans compete in National Wheelchair Games
It’s the 37th year for the event, being held this year in Cincinnati July 17 – 22. The games serve to encourage Veterans to become aware of their abilities and potential while promoting a spirit of healthy activity and camaraderie.
VA testing mobile app that helps tailor care based on each Veteran’s genetics
When a new system being field tested this summer goes live, VA will become the first U.S. health care organization ever to put genetic testing data into the hands of patients via a mobile application.
Veteran sets world record while working to break stigma surrounding mental health
This Veteran did 539 standing ab-wheel roll outs to break a world record and break the stigma of mental health. Robert Consulmagno is coping with bipolar disorder and PTSD.
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VA recognizes community partners, employees working to end Veteran homelessnessHundreds of Veterans to participate in National Veterans Wheelchair Games
Watch LIVE: 37th National Veterans Wheelchair Games streaming from Cincinnati
Army brat discusses the flexibility and cost savings of an online education
Service members visit VA national cemeteries to tell Veterans stories through video
Texas VA facility hosts group baby shower for Veterans
Student Veterans of America set to launch 2017 Chapter Leadership Academy
VA welcomes 13 new cemetery directors
Who we are: Brian Venerick helps Veterans grow their economic opportunity
Disabled Veterans find New England summer sports clinic “Invigorating!”
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VETERAN OF THE WEEK
This week we honor Army Veteran L. C. Netherly.
Netherly enlisted in the Army in 1941.
In June of that year, after completing a night march; the soldiers of his company were swimming at the Baker Hollow Maneuver and Camping Site. A fellow soldier fell into a pond and struggled. Private Netherly went to his aid and pulled him to safety.
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Patients who use military hospitals and clinics will find it easier to see how their facility is performing thanks to June 28 changes by the Military Health System to its transparency website. (MHS graphic)
Patients who use military hospitals and clinics will find it easier to see how their facility is performing thanks to June 28 changes by the Military Health System to its transparency website.The MHS has put military hospital and clinic quality, safety, and patient satisfaction information online for years, but not always in ways that could be easily found or understood. The recent changes to the site are a good first step to fixing that problem, said Dr. Jill Sterling, co-chair of the MHS Transparency Initiative Group.
“We put all of our public data on health.mil after the Secretary of Defense review in 2014, and added additional measures when Congress passed the Fiscal Year 2016 National Defense Authorization Act,” said Sterling. “Making so much information public from so many sources as fast as we did meant there wasn’t much time to design with the user in mind. The site wasn’t very easy to use.”
The website improvements include:
- Each military hospital and clinic now has a landing page where patients can see all the data in one place. In the past, patients had to download multiple spreadsheets and search for their facility.
- Users can find a U.S. hospital or clinic by ZIP code search. Users can find any hospital or clinic that reports data, including those overseas, through a name search.
- Users can compare up to three nearby hospitals or clinics on one custom report.
- MHS data managers now have a flexible system that lets them update performance measures. They can also add new measures and remove old ones that are no longer used. In the past, adding a new measure could take months. Now MHS can make most changes in days or weeks.
The new site includes a random sample survey of users to help the MHS get feedback from patients. The site also includes a way for users to send feedback by email. MHS plans to have volunteers perform user testing at several military hospitals and clinics. This will ensure patients have a say in future improvements.
Users can visit the site directly, or go to the main landing page of the health.mil website and click a link to the MHS Transparency pages. Individual military hospital and clinic websites will also link to the transparency site from their webpages.
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