We did it! In late June, a bipartisan group of 12 senators announced that they would not consider nominations to the AIR Commission, effectively ending the process and preventing the VA’s closure recommendations from going into effect.
Read more in our press release here.
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Use These Resources to Help Save the VA:
View the AIR Commission Closures Map
Resources:
- GAO - VA Health Care: Incomplete Information Hinders Usefulness of Market Assessments for VA Facility Realignment
- VHPI Analysis of VA’s Market Assessments Used to Make Recommendations for VA Closures, Consolidations and Expansion
- Center for Healthcare Quality and Payment Reform - Hospitals at Risk of Closing
News
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- Veterans: VA health care proposal should be discarded
- Officials voice concerns with VA report that could impact three W.Va. facilities
- Veteran voices disapproval of possibly closing Chillicothe VA Medical Center
- Wife fears her husband will lose healthcare if VA closes
- Councilors slam plan to close Quincy VA clinic, call on feds to engage with local vets
- Federal Department of Veterans Affairs Proposes to Close Brooklyn VA Medical Center
- A VA hospital is threatened with closure, and veterans warn that community caregivers are not prepared to treat vets
- Inside the AIR Commission’s Perilous Work
- 'It's Life Shattering:' Employees and Lawmakers Denounce VA's Efforts to Shutter Facilities
- ‘They don’t know us’: With a VA hospital threatened with closure, veterans warn that community caregivers are not prepared to treat those with military experience
- Schumer vows to fight Biden admin plan to close two NYC veterans hospitals
- Max Rose, Staffers and Union Reps Rally to Save Brooklyn VA Med Center
- Some agencies resist Biden’s pro-labor orders, federal union says
- VA chief to recommend hospital closures and expansions in restructuring of the country’s largest health-care system
- Proposal to relocate Salem VA Medical Center draws reaction from employee union, veterans
- VA study of health care market access has some data gaps
- VA recommends closing hundreds of VA clinics in privatization move
- VA hospital targeted for closure
- Report urges changes at VA Medical Center
- Study calls for closing Hampton VA Medical Center
- The VA Proposes Closing a Dozen Hospitals, and Using Pay to Attract Workers to New Locations
- VA plan to rethink real-estate footprint calls for closing some medical facilities, building others
- VA to Propose Closing Some Medical Centers and Outpatient Facilities
- VA Wants to Shutter More than 100 Medical Facilities But Build Hundreds More
- VA would close 3 medical centers, restructure 100s of outpatient clinics in new plan
