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Hospital emergency codes are coded messages often announced over a public address system of a hospital to alert staff to various classes of on-site emergencies. The use of codes is intended to convey essential information quickly and with minimal misunderstanding to staff while preventing stress and panic among visitors to the hospital.
Veterans' health care in the United States is separated geographically into 19 regions (numbered 1, 2, 4–10, 12 and 15–23) known as VISNs, or Veterans Integrated Service Networks, into systems within each network headed by medical centers, and hierarchically within each system by division level of care or type.
The effects of World War I, which resulted in a new veteran population of over five million men and women, brought dramatic changes to the National Home and all other governmental agencies responsible for veterans' benefits. In 1930 the Veterans Administration was established, to consolidate all veterans' programs into a single Federal agency ...
The Veterans Benefits Administration ( VBA) is an agency of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. It is responsible for administering the department's programs that provide financial and other forms of assistance to veterans, their dependents, and survivors. Major benefits include Veterans' compensation, Veterans' pension, survivors ...
VA Medical Center: Columbia: Harry S. Truman Memorial Veterans’ Hospital Poplar Bluff: John J. Pershing VA Medical Center Kansas City: Kansas City VA Medical Center St. Louis: VA St. Louis Health Care System - John J. Cochran Division St. Louis: VA St. Louis Health Care System - Jefferson Barracks Division Outpatient Clinic: Springfield
The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) is the component of the United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) led by the Under Secretary of Veterans Affairs for Health that implements the healthcare program of the VA through a nationalized healthcare service in the United States, providing healthcare and healthcare-adjacent services to veterans through the administration and operation of ...
The Veterans Benefits Administration has been in existence since the creation of the Department of Veterans Affairs in October 1988, when it was led by a chief benefits director. In 1994, the title was changed to Under Secretary of Veterans Affairs for Benefits. Under Secretary Allison A. Hickey resigned in October 2015.
Added to NRHP. December 4, 2012. The Northampton Veterans Affairs Medical Center, formerly the Northampton Veterans Administration Hospital, is a facility of the United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) at 421 Main Street in the Leeds section of northern Northampton, Massachusetts. Its campus once consisted of about 286 acres (116 ha ...