At the same time, weve had a large increase in care in the community, choice hasnt worked as intended. Here are some things were doing to fix it. On april 24th we changed the measure from Straight Line to driving distance. Using the fastest route. This roughly doubles the number of veterans eligible for the 40mile program under choice. Excuse me. But there is much more to do. A followon mailing to all eligible veterans is about to go out. Weve Just Launched a major change in internal processes to make choice the default option for care in the community. Additional staff training and communication extensive provider communications, improvement to the website and ramped up social networking. New mechanisms together, timely feedback. Directly from both veterans as well as from front line staff. These are all, already in place or about to launch. In the longer term, we must rationalize Community Care into a single channel. The different programs with different rules and reimbursement rates
Captioning performed by vitac forward to hearing first from sloan gibson. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Chairman isakson Ranking Member blumenthal and the committee, were committed to making the Choice Program work and to providing veterans timely and geographically accessible care, using care in the community whenever necessary. Ill talk shortly about what were doing and the help that we need from congress to make all of that happen. First, i want to talk very briefly about access to care. Most mornings at 9 00 a. M. , for the last year, Senior Leaders from across the department gathered to focus on improving veterans access to care. Weve concentrated on key drivers of access, including increasing Medical Center staffing by 11,000, adding space, boosting care during extended hours and weekends by 10 and increasing staff productivity. The result, 2. 5 million more completed appointments inside va this year than last. Relative value units, a common measure of care delivered that measured car
Their terms show every shade of meaning. Some say they must not have a Nuclear Weapon capability. Some say Nuclear Capability must be stopped. In the debates between the two candidate in terms of used interchangeably. If the dividing line is famous not have a Nuclear Weapon and then it will become nearly impossible to manage because that means they can continue to enrich plutonium at three levels that define Nuclear Capability, Delivery Systems, instrument capability, and warheads. The Delivery Systems are not a subject of negotiation. The question is whether the enrichment capability gets eliminated. Drawing a line at the weapons, the warhead development is not meaningful because from richmond to weapon, and our intelligence capability on that subject is so limited. Negotiations are going on. The fact of bilateral negotiation between iran and the United States is a matter of grave concern to the sunni arab iranian Nuclear Capability, totally eliminated, where negotiations seem to be g
Live from the kgotv Broadcast Center this is abc7 news. Thanks for joining us. The first monday morning commute, but all focus on a federal investigation into the deadly accident. Two employees are killed by a train. We are in oakland with that story. Nick . This morning, we are here because unions continue to hold the line at the lake merritt bart station on day four of the bart strike, two daze after a bart employee was struck and killed by a train on the tracks between walnut creek and concord. Investigators with the ntsb took over the accident scene on sunday and spent much of the day inspecting the train and conferring with local and state counterparts. This week, the inspector and his team said all will be tested for drugs and alcohol. Safety records will be we viewed and digital data will help investigators determine who was in the cabin of the train and the speed at the time. We will spread out with the expertise that we get from 9 parties and look at every part of what went on
Hopes its powerful new rocket will mark the start of a new era of space, exploration and return human kind to the moon for the 1st time in 50 years. And more than 1000 people have been killed as pakistan, struggles to cope with devastating monsoon floods. The government is calling it a climate catastrophe and appealing to the International Community for help plus a back and forth in the bonus. Niga with frankfort, eventually calling and on top in brent golds galore. And much more coming up in sports. Ah, i am pablo foley as welcome to the program. Experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency are on their way to ukraine separation Nuclear Power plant, which has been captured by russian forces. I a head raphael grossey says the team will visit the plant later this week. As concern grows over security at the site, russia and ukraine accuse each other of artillery strikes in the vicinity that the attacks are feeling fears of a catastrophic radiation leak official say radiation level