Florida house bills to provide veterans behavioral health care, homelessness assistance Mansur Shaheen | Jan 25, 2021
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Several bills filed this month in the House could have significant impacts on Florida’s health care system, including one that would authorize the Department of Veterans’ Affairs to establish the Florida Veterans’ Care Coordination Program. If established, the program will provide veterans and their families with behavioral health services.
The bill, HB 231, was filed by Rep. Ardian Zika on Jan.13. The bill was then referred to the House Local Administration and Veterans Affairs Subcommittee and the Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee on Jan. 22.
The bill will allow the department to contract nonprofits that enter into agreements with the Florida 211 program. The program provides free phone service, 24-hour, phone service where Floridians can call in and be referred to a medical provider. Contracted services will use the 2
The Hampton VA opened 150 years ago to help Black Union veterans Its history is getting a fresh look pilotonline.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from pilotonline.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
HAMPTON, Va. (Tribune News Service) More than 150 years ago, on the same land where the
Hampton VA Medical Center is located, sat a women’s college. The students fled during the Civil War and Confederate forces seized the site, making it a lookout. The school had a dome facing a
Union Army stronghold the Fortress Monroe. Later, after the Union regained control, Maj.
Gen. Benjamin Butler, Fort Monroe’s commander, purchased it. His purchase mostly coincided with
Congress passing an act in 1865 to establish the
National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers a few were built in the north. Five years later, Butler sold the land to the government for $50,000, recommending that an infirmary in the south was needed for