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Two successive administrations have denied veterans' health care facilities the funding and support they need to implement ambitious long-term care programs Congress approved in 1999 in the so-called millennium act, Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs Chair Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) charged at an April 25 hearing. To increase its nursing home census and implement new noninstitutionalized services such as respite care, as Congress required, the VA needs to change a stodgy bureaucratic culture and confront administration budgeters to demand that they and legislators direct more resources to VA health, which confronts a burgeoning aging population who need both nursing home and community-based care, he said.
Rockefeller expressed frustration at being unable to...
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