{"id":17756,"date":"2021-03-01T09:58:51","date_gmt":"2021-03-01T14:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=17756"},"modified":"2021-03-01T09:58:51","modified_gmt":"2021-03-01T14:58:51","slug":"community-care-specialists-help-veteran-amputee-thrive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=17756","title":{"rendered":"Community care specialists help Veteran amputee thrive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Source &#8211; www.blogs.va.gov\/VAntage)<\/p>\n<p>Marine Veteran Richard Alcaraz (pictured above) has a new outlook on life. After receiving care through VA\u2019s Community Care Network (CCN), he has become a competitive athlete.<\/p>\n<p>Alcaraz suffered from severe dermatological issues causing his prosthetic leg to be nearly unusable. He began to lose hope he would live a normal life again and found himself feeling depressed and isolated. \u201cI didn\u2019t feel like I was a complete person anymore,\u201d he explained.\u00a0 Continue to read the article <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.va.gov\/VAntage\/84959\/community-care-specialists-help-veteran-amputee-thrive\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/VAntage-Point-.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-16129\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/VAntage-Point--300x64.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"64\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/VAntage-Point--300x64.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/VAntage-Point-.png 327w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice:<\/strong> The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Source &#8211; www.blogs.va.gov\/VAntage) Marine Veteran Richard Alcaraz (pictured above) has a new outlook on life. After receiving care through VA\u2019s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-veterans-benefits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17756"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17757,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17756\/revisions\/17757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}