{"id":20534,"date":"2022-11-17T08:53:48","date_gmt":"2022-11-17T13:53:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=20534"},"modified":"2022-11-17T08:53:49","modified_gmt":"2022-11-17T13:53:49","slug":"supporting-vas-geriatric-mental-health-care-needs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=20534","title":{"rendered":"Supporting VA\u2019s geriatric mental health care needs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(Source &#8211; news.va.gov)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Staff attrition at medical facilities, providers taking extended leave, and an expanding Veteran population all impact access to care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bedford VA in Massachusetts, with a 300-bed Community Living Center, Dementia Unit, and Geriatric Psychiatry Unit complex needed geriatric psychiatrists in the spring of 2021.  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/news.va.gov\/110813\/supporting-geriatric-mental-health-care-needs\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/news.va.gov\/110813\/supporting-geriatric-mental-health-care-needs\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"48\" class=\"wp-image-20064\" style=\"width: 200px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/VA-dept-of-vet-affairs.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/VA-dept-of-vet-affairs.png 418w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/VA-dept-of-vet-affairs-300x72.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>&nbsp;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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Source &#8211; news.va.gov) Staff attrition at medical facilities, providers taking extended leave, and an expanding Veteran population all impact access<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,7],"tags":[91,210,87,245],"class_list":["post-20534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mental-healthbehavioral-health","category-veterans-benefits","tag-mental-health","tag-older-veterans","tag-veterans","tag-veterans-health-care"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20534","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=20534"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20535,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20534\/revisions\/20535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}