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Veteran's Health Care amd update The Macular Degeneration Partnership is a coalition of patients, families, researchers, clinicians and leaders in the fields of vision and aging. Our mission is to create an unprecedented collaboration among all these stakeholders to disseminate information about AMD, provide support to patients and marshal resources for a cure. Some of the topics in the May 2008 update include:
'wieghing in' with exercise, sports, personal medical records (march 3, 2008) WASHINGTON – With more than 70 percent of patients coming to the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for health care found to be overweight, VA is boosting its efforts to increase veterans’ fitness through exercise, good nutrition and healthy lifestyles. “VA’s patients should consider themselves partners with our health professionals in managing their own care,” said Dr. James B. Peake, Secretary of Veterans Affairs. “They need to ensure they eat right, exercise regularly and stay on the move.” [ Read more ] Veterans health care COMMITTEE REPORT Maintaining Your Medical Records BY PATRICIA BESSIGANO, CHAIR VVA members are now either in our retirement years or quickly approaching them. One of the challenges facing Veterans Service Officers is the filing of new claims for Vietnam veterans without proper medical evidence. If veterans have not kept copies of their records, it can be virtually impossible to document the progress of an illness, especially if they have received medical care in the private sector. Private physicians are required to maintain medical records for seven years. Many keep them at least ten years. However, record storage beyond that often becomes cumbersome and those records are destroyed. The opportunity for the patient to obtain those records is then lost, and the opportunity to document an illness also is lost. Also, private physicians have not always documented whether their patients have served in the military or if they were exposed to any hazardous chemicals or materials. They also have not always documented illnesses or injuries that occurred during a veteran’s service. One of the goals of the Health Care Committee is to educate returning veterans about maintenance of their medical records as they progress in life and to educate private physicians about taking a complete and accurate military medical history. A sample medical history form will be available on the VVA Health Care Committee web page. The new prostate and diabetes brochures are also available on the VVA website.
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