Your other point was about really the Community Providers and the type of care they deliver. You might have practiced inside and outside the va. I am note going to paint everyone the same picture. It happens to us a lot. I think there are a ton of Community Providers that are delivering extra care. Hopefully strenten them so you dont need to provide. We can provide them in house, timely and state of the art. Thats what i mean for certain things like spinal cord injury we need to make sure they are there to support our patients. At the same time for things that we think are provided at high quality in the community and maybe dont require that expertise as much like a quick exam, a colonoscopy and how do we make sure they are in our network. I think its part of our job to educate and provide resources. We started pretty much a free training program. They can get free cme credits. We have a four Course Program on military cultural competency. They can go to a web site, get that certificat
The civilian community. Many veterans do it. Many active duty do it, with not even a skip of a beat. But many struggle with these issues. And we know they struggle because we see we see evidence in all the legal problems, many of our veterans are having. We also know that there is a great deal of homelessness in our veterans population. I guess the employment issues that Everybody Knows about, and ultimately the saddest of the statistics is all of the suicide we are hearing about. Sampsa and other organizations tell us anywhere from 22 upwards to 30 a day, veterans commit suicide. And we know at least one active duty dov military member commits suicide. These are tragedies that we really have to muster up and fight. But the good news, even with all the difficulty many of our veterans are facing, is that in each community there are great supports that nami needs to connect up with. And theyre called vsos, our veteran Service Organizations. There are a great many veteran Service Organiza
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The Lima Senior High School DECA group is helping some local athletes go for the gold. The students presented a $650 check to the Allen County Special Olympics at the