On the heels of the one-year anniversary of the reigniting of the President’s Cancer Moonshot initiative, VA invites you to a special cancer conversation virtual live event to raise awareness about the health challenges facing minority communities and what VA is doing to overcome them.
How is VA supporting minority Veterans?
During National Minority Health Month and throughout the year, VA works to reduce health disparities among minority Veterans by promoting health equity in Veteran care. Through our equal access system, we are proud to share that Veterans often have better outcomes if they choose VA for their cancer care.
During the virtual live panel discussion, you will hear from VA leaders and oncologists who live and breathe the work of providing best-in-class cancer care to Veterans every day.
They will discuss the latest health and prevention guidelines as well as current screening options for four cancers—lung, colorectal, breast, and cervical—where regular screening often leads to catching cancer early and when it is most effectively treated.
We encourage all Veterans to take advantage of these services by talking to their VA health care provider about what screening options are right for them.
Link to live event
VA welcomes all members of the military and Veteran community to participate in the “Cancer Cabinet Community Conversation Highlighting Minority Health Month” virtual live event.
Visit this Youtube link on April 25, 2023, from 3 to 4 p.m. ET to view the live discussion.
The following Veteran advocates, VA providers and others will share how VA is reducing health disparities among minority Veterans:
- Dr. Ernest Moy, executive director, VHA Office of Health Equity
- James Albino, executive director, VA Center for Minority Veterans
- Dr. Jane Kim, executive director for Preventive Medicine, VA National Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
- Dr. Haley Moss, gynecologic oncologist and director, VA Breast and Gynecologic Oncology System of Excellence
- Dr. Nichole Tanner, Pulmonary and Critical Care physician, Ralph H. Johnson VA
- Dr. Aasma Shaukat, gastroenterologist, New York Harbor VA
- Tahmika Jackson, Veteran and special counsel, Office of General Counsel
Delivering on the Cancer Moonshot promise
President Biden announced the re-launch of Cancer Moonshot to refocus cancer research, diagnosis and treatment with the goals to reduce the death rate of cancer by at least 50% over the next 25 years and to improve the experience of those living with and surviving cancer, saying: “We must come together to equitably deliver on this promise.”
Today, VA cares for over 450,000 Veterans with cancer, and it diagnoses approximately 43,000 new cancers every year. VA’s Cancer Moonshot initiatives are supporting a greater emphasis on health equity through targeted outreach to historically underserved communities and programs that actively work to reduce barriers to our best-in-class cancer care.
Learn more about cancer care and VA
VA strongly encourages Veterans to talk to their VA provider about the need for different cancer screenings and what screening options are available.
To learn more about cancer care at VA, visit the cancer webpage. Visit My HealtheVet to learn tips and tools to help you partner with your health care team, so together you may work to manage your health.
To read more stories about Cancer Moonshot, visit VA News and Information.
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Well, why not also tell them how VA cutting off Walkins
to primary care is going to help them.
I just went through a nightmare last week with emergency
care and pneumonia. Wanted to do a Walkin and primary
care escorted me to my car like I was some unwanted
liability. Lead to two day fight between civilian ER and the
Temple VAMC ER. Nearly died. Even a run in with a hostile
police officer trying to milk me for a revenue ticket – denying
me access to emergency care over a stop sign. Force me
into a EMS ride to avoid the ticket? Anything to add to my
problems and expenses. McGregor Tx has become ghouls now
creating a toll road to urgent health care.
Finding out this is nation wide. You have a emergency? We
dont want you? How is that going to help with Cancer situations
that are often urgent care. These folks dont need to find a
primary care doctor outside of VA that knows them, this totally
defeats the purpose of primary care.
I wrote the Sec of VA about this Monday. and they passed it onto
VHA to answer. Got the emails saying so. It wont be in my or your
favor.
Virtual events are not clinical care, removing walk-ins makes this
even worse. Urgent care and primary care are now a war zone in
the coming weeks. Thousands will die this year in all the problems
this is creating going back to EMS triage games of who gets care
and all those that dont when it matters.
Terminal care? I hate to imagine how bad that is right now because
its remote and isolated. I think unspeakable things are happening
right now, and oversight isnt there to keep it in check.
VA has become a horror show in private and I think we wont know the
full extent till the end of 2023.
REINSTATE VA primary care walkins.