Hoeven Reviews Efforts to Improve Veteran Access to Local Health Care, Long-Term Care

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Senator John Hoeven today led a roundtable with local veterans, officials from the Fargo Veterans Affairs (VA) Hospital System, area health care providers and county-level veteran service officers to outline his efforts to improve veterans' access to health care. As a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee on Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, Hoeven worked with his colleagues in Congress last month to secure funding to improve services at the VA and advance legislation to improve veterans' access to non-VA health care and extended care facilities.

"When our veterans choose to serve our nation, we make a commitment to care for them," Hoeven said. "We continue our efforts in Congress to fulfill that promise, not only by giving the VA the resources it needs to properly serve our veterans, but also by empowering veterans to access the care they need in their local communities. Our veterans deserve convenient, quality care. We will keep working to ensure they can access health and long-term care services without having to travel across the state and without leaving their homes and loved ones behind."

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