Medical and Dental Programs of the Veterans' Administration: Hearings Before the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, House of Representatives, Eighty-third Congress, First Session, on Testimony of Officials of the Veterans' Administration and the Bureau of the Budget on Medical Program for Veterans. February 18, 19, and 25, 1953 |
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$5 million 68th Congress adjudicated Administration hospital Administrator of Veterans Admiral BOONE admission amended American Psychiatric Association applications appropriation artificial limbs authorized average AYRES Boxer Rebellion Bureau chart Chief Medical Director clinical committee Congress Congressman cost CRETELLA D. C. DEAR dentists dietitians disease domiciliary EDITH NOURSE ROGERS eligible estimate EVINS facilities FAUBER fiscal FRELINGHUYSEN funds gentleman GENTRY Gray Gregg County HAGEN length of stay Madam Chairman MCNAMARA medical program Medicine and Surgery military or naval neuropsychiatric non-service-connected nonservice connected nurses outpatient dental treatment patient load pension percent personnel physician pital President President's budget private hospitals PROUTY psychiatric hospitals psychotic question received reduction in force request service-connected service-connected disabilities Spanish-American War SPRINGER staff TEAGUE teeth tion TOMPKINS tooth United VA hospital waiting list ward World War II
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Page 253 - June 27, 1950, and prior to such date as shall thereafter be determined by Presidential proclamation or concurrent resolution of the Congress, shall, subject to other provisions of law and Veterans Regulations administered by the Veterans...
Page 248 - The Comptroller General of the United States is hereby authorized and directed to pay directly to...
Page 252 - veteran' means persons who served in the organized military forces of the Government of the Commonwealth of the Philippines while such forces were in the service of the armed forces of the United States...
Page 247 - Affairs is hereby authorized under such limitations as he may prescribe, and within the limits of existing Veterans' Administration facilities, to furnish to men discharged from the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, or Coast Guard for disabilities incurred in line of duty...
Page 243 - In addition to the compensation above provided, the injured person shall be furnished by the United States such reasonable governmental medical, surgical, and hospital services and with such supplies, including artificial limbs, trusses, and similar appliances, as the director may determine to be useful and reasonably necessary...
Page 241 - April 20, 1922, provided that "all hospital facilities under the control and jurisdiction of the United States Veterans' Bureau shall be available for veterans of the Spanish-American War, the Philippine Insurrection, and the Boxer Rebellion, suffering from neuropsychiatric and tubercular ailments and diseases" (p. 80). "Sec. 4. That all hospital facilities under the control and jurisdiction of the United States Veterans...
Page 248 - ... of this appropriation may be used to repair, alter, improve, or provide facilities in the several hospitals and homes under the jurisdiction of the Veterans' Administration either by contract or by the hire of temporary employees and the purchase of materials.
Page 245 - Affairs. Such administrator, under the direction of the President, shall have the control, direction, and management of the various agencies and activities enumerated in and referred to in section 1 of this Act, and shall be charged with all the administrative duties relating to the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers and the Bureau of Pensions now imposed by law upon the Secretary of War and the Secretary of the Interior, respectively. All final decisions or...
Page 251 - ... by proclamation of the President, or by concurrent resolution of the Congress, that hostilities between the United States and such country, state, or sovereignty have ended.
Page 249 - Insurrection, who are suffering with injuries or diseases which were incurred or aggravated in line of duty in the active military or naval service when in need of hospital treatment for such injuries or diseases.