VA holds town hall meeting at the Nolan Center

 

March 21, 2019

Dr. Timothy Ballard Alaska VA Healthcare System Director

The United States Department of Veterans Affairs is a federal agency that works to care for the nation's veterans. The VA offers eligible veterans healthcare, as well as other non-medical benefits such as memorial benefits and disability payments. The state of Alaska is home to somewhere between 75 to 90,000 veterans, according to Alaska VA Healthcare System Director Dr. Timothy Ballard. Of these, however, he said that maybe only 36,000 are signed up and receiving their VA benefits, and they only see about 24,000 in their clinics. To expand the VA's services to as many veterans as possible,...



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