Year and i always try to encourage people at home to send the soldier something and i wondered what happened to them when they went home. You know, which leads me to i just want your opinion real quick. The idea of when you were getting a guard and reserve go home. Active duty go back to a base as opposed to an opportunity for consultation for the guard and reserve of what you doing when you go home . Web activity are you engaging in because to me the worst week was the first week home when i did nothing and then i went back and saw patients again. So do you think that would be beneficial . You are not coming home to praise and theres not a lot of jobs. I think i may have missed the question but what we try to do in the community is to generate lots of opportunities and one of the key features of opportunities is, involves kinship, support relationships, community. We look at individuals in terms of their wellbeing and in order to have wellbeing yeah in need emotional health. You need
Thank you very much. Thank you, mr. Chairman. I cant thank you enough for being here today, the sacrifices that you have made. I pray that the sacrifices that you and your entire family made will make us a better nation at the end of the day. I think most that sign up to serve have that intention, that they will make this a better nation at the end of the day. I am a physician and also a reservist and i served in iraq for a year. That has led me to want to be here today. One of the things i know as a doctor and im sure dr. Somers you can relate, that when you have patients, regardless of their problems, there is a level of anxiety that, because they have something wrong, whether its muscular, skeletal or mental, it doesnt matter. Something is wrong and there is anxiety. It makes it more difficult and heightens the anxiety when you have all these administrative problems. I know you started to deal with that in private practice. More so maybe than when you first started. The prescription
Are you looking at partnerships equine therapy. I have a Great Program in my district, a successful program. They could partner with programs like that. Community partnerships, engaged as part of Community Helping them. Are you asking if every v. A. Should have equine therapy . I want to know how we can increase these partnerships. Ill use my own example, im really watching the clock here. My time has run out. Ill follow up with my question. Thank you. A question for dr. Mccarthy following up closely on a few others. What are the waiting times for access to Mental Health care. Its hard to give an tut number given that both members of this committee and i have said im not sure we trust the actual numbers. What we now have, though, transparently are information about access. I printed and brought some of that information. Whats posted is for every v. A. Medical center what the new patient Mental Health wait time is, the established Mental Health wait time and then running average over th
for the foreseeable future? we have been working our central office team. i was one of many of our central office colleague who is are licensed to go into our schools. we deployed our central office team. i can t thank them enough to be able to go in. we also deployed secretaries and accountants and just all of our curriculum staff who went in and covered recess and school lunches time and gave teachers breaks during the day. that is something that has been incredibly heartwarming and inspiring to see this week. no doubt about it. we appreciate the work you re doing and thinking of all of you. thank you for being with us. still ahead, the family of
For Pulaski County Schools, the start of the 2021-22 school year on Wednesday will mark the largest number of students on campus since March 2020. Which makes training on the