VA’s bad data puts vets at risk | Opinion
Harold Kudler, chief consultant for Mental Health Services at the Veterans Health Administration; Caitlin Thompson, deputy director of suicide prevention at the VHA; and Dean Krahn, deputy director of the VHA's Office of Mental Health Operations, testified recently during a hearing of the Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee on "Veterans' Mental Health and Suicide" in Washington, D.C.The U.S.
The America’s Warrior Partnership’s study, which included data from the Department of Defense, examined five years of data from eight representative states. My organization, Mission Roll Call, routinely polls veterans on post-service care concerns and shares the results with policymakers in hopes of being a catalyst of change. One of ourfound that 71% of veterans are not satisfied with the VA’s efforts and policies to reduce veteran suicide.
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