local centers‚ to evaluate potential problems and give advice regarding care and performance. • Identification and dissemination of good practices associated with better outcomes. 2. How were benchmark standards established? In 1993‚ the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) conducted the National VA Surgical Risk Study (NVASRS)‚ with the aim of developing and validating risk-adjustment models for the prediction of surgical outcome and the comparative assessment of the quality of surgical
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Take care of Veterans I believe that it is the best interest of veterans‚ whom have served the military in any capacity to be afforded not just medication‚ but also some form of counseling. Being a veteran myself I have experienced: over medicating by the government‚ not receiving any form of counseling‚ and when I was given an appointment it was six months from the day that it was scheduled. When I was Honorably Discharged from the military I was not afforded any form of mental counseling‚
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Veterans Essay What a veteran means to me is someone who is brave ‚strong‚ and courageous. I have a few veterans in my family. They have been through alot. They have spent time away from their hometown in different states that they have been stationed at. It is hard having them away‚ but it is even harder for them. Let me tell you about my perspective on things. A veteran is someone who was very brave. Going to war comes with the fear of death or getting severely injured. Veterans ‚ of
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By: Krysten G. Navy Veteran Griffin Kirsch Did you know the Navy is the only branch where you get to pick your job and what you want to do for that branch? Also there are sometimes in the Navy where it takes about 4 months or even more to get to where they needed to be in order to fight. I did not know a lot of those facts until I decided to interview my cousin‚ Griffin. He has recently just stopped serving in the military because he never gets to see his family
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Veterans Day occurs on November 11 every year in the United States In 1954‚ President Dwight D. Eisenhower officially changed the name of the holiday from Armistice Day to Veterans Day.In 1968‚ the Uniform Holidays Bill was passed by Congress‚ which moved the celebration of Veterans Day to the fourth Monday in October. The law went into effect in 1971‚ but in 1975 President Gerald Ford returned Veterans Day to November 11‚ due to the important historical significance of the date.Great Britain‚ France
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me‚ (Tanabe). Veterans people who risk their lives for people they don’t even now. Usually when we see a veteran we thank them for their service. These Americans Veterans risk their lives and it’s a natural instinct to say thank you‚ but to some it’s no problems‚ and when someone says thank you to a vet they are reminding them of the good and bad times when they served. Walking up to a veteran and saying thankyou is a natural instinct‚ but is it no problem to the veterans you say it to
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A veteran to me i savery brave person th at sev ered in the military. I have a few veterans in my family‚ My dad my uncle and more. he 2017 National Veterans Day Poster Contest is complete! Each year the Department of Veterans Affairs’ (VA) National wVeterans outreach Office‚ in conjunction with the Veterans Day National Committee‚ publishes a commemorative Veterans Day poster. The poster is selected from artwork submitted by artists nationwide and is distributed to vA
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Michael Adams Social studies 7th hour 10/15/2012 Thankful for my soldiers I am thankful for our soldiers giving us justice‚ thankful for them making us feel safe in our country‚ for giving us freedom of speech and more. This is what I appreciate from our soldiers. First of all I am thankful to our soldiers for giving us justice‚ if we didn’t have justice we would be pushed around‚ and other countries could just barge in and take us and everything we own away and make us their slaves .If we
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Veterans Day was originally called Armistice Day after an armistice was signed to temporarily seize fighting during World War I on the eleventh hour‚ of the eleventh day‚ of the eleventh month in 1918. November 11th was officially designated a federal holiday in 1938‚ and in 1954‚ after World War II and the Korean War‚ it was renamed Veterans Day to honor those who have served in all wars. Veterans Day is not to be confused with Memorial Day. Memorial Day honors those who died while serving‚ whereas
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people of the home we all live in. Yet‚ these veterans are officially recognized for only once a year to commemorate their bravery and we still do not know what significance they present to us. However‚ many soldiers who never returned from the battle and some who lived to this day convey the message that they fought for us for a whole variety of reasons‚ and affects us today and our future in numerous ways. To get into the meat of the matter‚ veterans are honored for serving the country because
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