News From the Cause
Liaisons Provide Wounded Warriors Smooth Transitions to VA Care: (MIL HEALTH SYSTEM)
June 16, 2009
In a presentation before representatives from several military and veterans service organizations during a meeting hosted by DoD's Force Health Protection & Readiness office in late May, Kathleen Dinegar, acting national program manager of the VA Liaison Program Care Management and Social Work Service, said the program started six years ago with just one liaison at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C. The VA now has 27 full-time social workers and nurses working as liaisons in 13 MTFs. Five additional MTFs with significant numbers of injured service members have been identified for future VA liaison assignments over the next several months. [click here to view] (http://www.health.mil/Press/Release.aspx?ID=760)
