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At veterans town hall, Houston VA and veterans raise concerns about dental care, claims and campus parking
Summary
Veterans and advocates at a Houston town hall pressed the VA and city officials on wait times for dental care, follow-up on compensation claims and parking access at the VA medical center; VA staff said dental capacity is on their radar and valet/operational changes are reducing waits.
Veterans at a City of Houston veterans town hall urged the VA and city officials to address access problems including slow dental appointments, stressful compensation-and-pension (C&P) notifications and parking shortages at the Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center.
At the meeting, a veteran speaker, Jesse Brown, told VA staff that dental services were “the slowest department” he encountered and asked whether more outpatient dental appointments could be authorized at community clinics. Brown said his outpatient-clinic experiences were otherwise positive, but called dental waits “the longest wait for any…
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