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Members highlight uneven VA access, tele‑mental‑health needs and continuing EHR problems
Summary
Lawmakers across districts described long commutes for specialty care, telephone wait times at local VA clinics and lingering errors in VA electronic health records (Cerner/Vision), urging oversight, field hearings and cautious further rollouts of VA IT changes.
Representative Schreyer told the committee that veterans in Wenatchee, Washington, face a worsening mental‑health crisis and that the closest vet center providing full mental‑health services is a two‑hour drive; she said tele‑mental‑health expansion is important but ‘‘we also have to maintain access to in‑person counseling.’’
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