When you work at VA, you become part of a nationwide network that dedicates itself to helping Veterans achieve their whole health. With more than a million Veterans dealing with vision issues that impact their quality of life, ophthalmologists like you can make an incredible difference.
This can start by seeing patients in your local VA Medical Center (VAMC), offering them care and support. However, you can also expand your reach as part of VA’s TeleEye initiative, which enables patients to receive eye care remotely at their primary care doctor’s office.
In addition to patient care, research at VA is also vital to providing exceptional care. That may be on the ground working directly with researchers or in more administrative roles, applying leadership skills to help manage the flow of information and funding for these important projects.
Whatever role you choose, you’ll find new and meaningful ways to embrace our core values—integrity, commitment, advocacy, respect and excellence. These define who we are as VA employees and how we’ll fulfill our mission to care for Veterans.
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The System for glasses in the Murfreesboro TN. VA Alvin York “I was told by them, Fee Basing Veterans out to local DR’s for eye exams because they are so far behind; 3 months. This can cause the loss of help for our Veterans in this part of the State at this VA.
This is for Mr Bensinger – I once served with a LCDR Bensinger and I considered him to be a good friend.
I hope you are not related because you sound like all the other Democratic Naysayers about the BEST president I have ever willingly follow and consider him not only a great President, but also with appointments like Hegseth to be a staunch supporter of the military and us true veterans.
The future of the VA is uncertain. Our current President considers veterans to be suckers and losers. He will certainly be cutting funds and personnel from the VA system and will likely cause the closure of many VA hospitals. I would be very leery of signing up for a VA medical career with this looming in the near future. Veterans who voted for Trump be warned about what might happen to our beloved VA system.
Good luck hiring anyone with all the cuts coming with a VA secretary that doesn’t care about the VA staff or the patients. Should be ashamed of himself being a veteran.
Whoever wrote this story obviously doesn’t know the difference between ophthalmologists and optometrists. What they are describing are the duties of an optometrist, an MOS desperately needed at all VA’s. Study your subject before you publish