How is your Va Treatment in your town ?

[cruiserkf]

to all my veteran brothers and sisters how is the treatment you recieve in your town ?
down here its kinda like your just a number hurry up and wait see the nurse dr reads on computer refills meds and listens to heart and sends you on merry way Pain Cronic pain clinic has over a year wait !! and then they really treat you like shit down here in miami if you can even get in there ill never go back !! had 2 neck surgerys and 9 herniated discs in my spine and no meds from them they could care less 20 minute appts booked solid no personal care just another name in the database kinda sucks and they are so shorthanded and with all the vets coming back from overseas they need to hire more people that are kind and loving and treat uswith respect and dignity !! sometimes its just not that way !! really sucks from 100% disabled U S Navy Veteran USS Saratoga CV 60

[50calmike]

Contact your state Senator and let them know how you are being treated. If you can get all the vets there to do the same thing then something definitely will be done. Mine is Barbara Mikulski and she was outstanding dealing with the VA for my wife's grandfather. Shit never changes until senators get involved. Good luck and thank you for your service sir.

[Zero Gravitas]

The VA has asked me to bid on some large IT/Client Services projects. Not only did the VA not hire my firm, they canned the whole initiative - why should they lower their own costs, improve productivity and improve client satisfaction, when they can just hire more people to hand forms (and patient issues) to each other.

In 25 years of delivering engineering and products to large fouled up corporations and even more fouled up .gov entities, the VA is absolutely the most fouled up agency ever.

Based on my experience, this is what healthcare looks like when it is 100% run by the us.gov.

[stdlrf11]

They found my dad's cancer and did all they could to treat it. There are a lot of vets, so there were long waits for some appointments, but he and mom didn't mind too much.

[Bake]

I would have to say that the treatment I receive at my VA hospital in Augusta Ga. is Outstanding. We have a great group of doctors and therapist in my Spinal Cord Unit. It is pretty much a separate entity within the hospital. I do see the long lines and such when I have to go into other areas of the hospital for x-rays and such. And I know they have staffing issues even in the inpatient Spinal Cord Unit.

The pain clinics stay full because people can make thousands selling free pain meds.

PTSD is the new free ride so there are a lot of people in the hospitals looking to get themselves on the government tit for life.

[waterdogs]

My first experience with the VA hospital system was back in 1970, when I got out of the service. In those days, the East Orange (NJ) facility was like something out of an Edgar Allen Poe story, all the Drs. were like 90 fucking years old (one actually wore that old-time mirror deal on his head), and could hardly remember their own name, much less your medical history. The place was run down, dark, decrepit, typical "Hurry up and wait" mentality. Just like a scene out of "Creepshow"....

Fast-forward 32 years. I lost my employment which provided medical coverage, and started up again with the VA system. The facility I go to now (Lyons, NJ) happens to be very good (for me, anyway). They make the most of the budget and manpower available, and seem to do everything humanly possible to provide me with a decent quality of health care.

Gotta give `em props for a job well done.

Had to go to East Orange for a procedure a couple years back....that place is still pretty much of a zoo....

[perado]

While I haven't been to the local VA Hospital in 30+ years, those friends of mine who do use it tell me that the one here in Tucson has become one of the best sources of medical treatment available.

[TacoMan5000]

I have a few customers that go to the local VA. Some of them say it's great, some of them hate it but can't get anything better. I suppose it depends on what's wrong with you, and how old you are.