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Speaker 1 (00:04):
As far as the weather, Gast Shannon and I says,
we've got a Sunday day. Inner hands today with will
high of sixty three degrees. Then the coal front comes internight,
mostly cloudy, sky is down to thirty eight forty five
are high. Tomorrow will be partly cloudy start of the
day with some sun in the afternoon, twenty nine overnight
with clowns, and then on Wednesday at thlouty day showers
late in the day in a high at thirty nine
(00:24):
forty six degrees. Time for traffic from the.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
U SEE Health Traffic Center hard to see. UC is
the leading cause of death in the US. If you're
at risk, trusts the experts, So you see Health for
innovative and personal ized heartcare.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
I expect more at u sehealth dot com. There's a
broken down.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
He's found on the Reagan Tramp to southbound seventy one.
Left hand side southbound seventy five slows in and out
of Lachlan for an extra five. There's an accident in
Hamilton on North b at Black Chucking. From on fifty
five KRS the talk station.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
It is eight forty here KRCD talk station. A very
happy Monday.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
To you.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
You know me, I love my veteran friends and listening
audience and their families and do anything I can to
help spread the love and do anything we can to
help the American veteran and someone who shares my opinion
in that regard, Todd Sledge and the Cincinntiva is returning
for our cars Cares section to talk about some what
are described as significant changes coming to the VA facility.
(01:24):
Welcome back, Todd Sledge. It's always great having you on
the show. Yeah, Brian, it's always great to talk with you.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
And as she said, share this, share the motivation to
make sure our veterans are connected with what they need
to know here in Cincinnati.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Yes, indeed, So what is coming to the VA this year, Well, many.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
Of our veterans that are listening know that we've been
under a lot of construction for a very long period
of time, and so there are four significant plan completed
projects for twenty twenty five, and I just wanted to
point those out, Brian, because two of them are really
going to be phenomenal for us, and they involve two
(02:03):
of our community based out patient clinics where we are expanding.
We continue to expand So those veterans out in Claremont County,
the Eastgate area, Milford and Mount Orb and Georgetown and
the east side of Cincinnati will be moving to a
new new location this fall. It's over there, I call
it the TQL land over there in East Cape where
(02:25):
they've kind of taken over. But over there by the
TQL location, we're expanding our new clinic in the fall.
And what's significant about that move. We're also doing the
same thing with our Hamilton clinic out in Butler County.
And both of these facilities are doubling in size, so
both of them are going from Yeah, so both of
them are going from approximately like Claremont for example, they're
(02:49):
going from a sixteen thousand square foot facility to a
twenty six thousand square foot facility.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
And then Hamilton the same way.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
So both of these facilities brand new, first floor, state
of the art, plenty of parking, great expansion of it.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
And if I think of our veterans, want to take.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
A take a trip to see what they what the
new clinics will look like in Hamilton and Eastgate. We
opened up a very similar clinic like this in Dearborn.
Over there in Larnsburg, Indiana and it's it's absolutely beautiful, Brian.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
So with the larger expanded facilities, what comes along with
that it just more space, more doctors, more offices, or
the additional services are going to be offered for the veterans.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
Yeah, it's well, the some of the services, well, we'll
expand a little bit more because of the physical size
of these things. But what it does is it is
more space and the design of it is very interesting.
So if you think about these two facilities being like
a just a normal shoebox size, the providers do all
their work in the middle of the building and on
(03:51):
the between the two sides the right and left, there
are doors that access from like this inner circle or
inner working hub, and the provider goes from room to
room instead of the patient or the veteran going room
to room for different specialties, so it's.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
A different flow operation.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
Some of the things like our physical therapy and occupational
therapy sections will definitely expand and make things better for us,
as well as more office space for some different very
different specialties that happened like mental health and the dietary
and things.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Okay, Well, in addition to the expanded size, loosed locations.
Anything else coming to the facilities by way of improvements
to share, Yeah, the main hospital. The other two I
wanted to mention where primary care. Our primary care section
has been under construction that's located right off the first floor.
That will open up again here in twenty twenty five,
which again is just making it more space, easier for
(04:45):
veterans to navigate, and just a very much of an update.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
When we put that expansion on in.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
The early nineties, obviously we've outgrown it, and then every
veteran knows who comes to the facility come through this big, large,
revolving door.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
We have.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
Our lobbies been under innovation and it's starting to show
glimpses of what that's going to look like. And we're
very excited about how that's going to look. Where things
are just more serviceable, it's not chopped up and more inviting,
with a really really nice main lobby, piece of piece
of marble that's in the middle of that's going to
be very attractive. Well great well, and I know the
(05:20):
number of veterans who now signed up for Vacare has increased,
and that's the goal over the vas to get those
veterans on to take advantage of their VA benefits, which
is literally healthcare. Yeah, absolutely, and so our fiscal year
runs very differently than a normal calendar season. We ended
our twenty twenty four fiscal calendar year September thirtieth of
(05:43):
twenty twenty four, And to your point, Brian was the
most number of veterans we've seen in one given year.
And so I think veterans are starting to understand about
how and through your help and the different stuff that
we do, about how to take advantage of these benefits
and how to make a VA healthcare part of their
healthcare portfolio. And I think some of the myths and
(06:06):
misconceptions about who's eligible for VA healthcare is really come
into place. So we're really excited about our efforts and
how we're reaching folks, and we're looking to expand that
as well. And I've always said, what not a better
place to be served every day by staff who know
exactly what veterans are looking for and the different things
that they deal with. And it's so critical hearing, absolutely,
(06:29):
the hearing loss and the prosthetics and the eye here,
but particularly the toxic exposure stuff, which we're really high
on here.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Over the past two years.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Well, let's pause. We'll bring Todd back talk about enrolling
and what types of healthcare services are there, and how
veterans can apply and all these good fun facts. More
with Todd Sledge and the Sinceinniva. After these brief words,
fifty five KRC, you're one more time for the weather.
Chann nine says beautiful day to day, sunny skye's in
the highest sixty three overnight down to thirty eight with clowns,
(07:01):
partly cloudy beginning tomorrow sun later in the day.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
At some point forty five will be the high.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Overnight down to twenty nine with clouds and a cloudy
Wednesday rain late in the day high of thirty nine
closing out of forty seven degrees. Time for final traffic
Chuck from.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
The UC Health Traffic Center.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Heart disease as the leading cause of death in the US.
If you're at risk, trust the experts at you see
hell for innovative and personalized hardcare. Expect more at ucehealth
dot com. Sup Bend seventy five continues to slow through Wakland.
That's under a five minute delay and the last of
the heavy traffic for the Monday morning commute. Cruis are
(07:40):
working with the Wreck and Hamilton on North b at
Black Chuck ing ramon fifty five krs, the talk station.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Hey forty nine people have rc Detalk Station, Happy Monday,
Deep Dive with Daniel Davis and the Bright Part Inside
Scoop Tomorrow the Morning Show among other topics, and in
the meantime Todd Sledge and the CINCINNTI of the A.
All right, everybody know about the improvements coming to the
various facilities making it easier to navigate, expanded room for
the veterans to get their health care there, and let
us pivot over to getting even more of the veterans
(08:11):
enrolled in the VA health system. How can enrolling in
the VA health services improve a veterans over all health
and well being?
Speaker 4 (08:17):
Todd Well, Brian, you know, one of the things I
like to focus on with this is that there are
so many different things that we can do that's more
financially efficient, easier for veterans to do, and a lot
of less with a lot of less way times, as
you're probably well aware, there's a lot of different specialty
(08:37):
type services in the community that are very hard to
get into. P dietary dermatology sometimes you know, seeing an
audiologist some different folks, and these are things that we
by mandate we have to get you a scheduled appointment
within thirty days to be seen or find some other
arrangements for you to be seen. So that's you know,
(08:58):
that's one of the overall health and well being. But
one of the main things is is our preventative medicine model,
where you know, we can do things with different specialty
tests and prevention measures of things that the private sector
really can't offer or they're going to run through your insurance.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
So I always encourage people to do that.
Speaker 4 (09:16):
And you know this when it comes to again I'm
going to repeat myself when it comes to the eyeglasses
and hearing aids, yeah, and cost efficient measure of that.
But more particularly, you know, when I think of services
like mental health helping that you know, with with with
all the mental health services that we have, our home
care programs that we have in house care of things,
(09:37):
and just you know, and overall really old family medicine style.
You know, you know, your provider's my name, you know,
your nurse is by name, which is a very different
relationship when it comes to I think people going to
the doctor, especially stubborn people that avoid the doctor, like myself.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Oh so much. Like I have my own primary care
physician who I've been going to for geese years and
years and years. It's the same type of thing going
on with the VA. You're just not assigned a primary
care physician randomly.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
When you go in.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
You get to see the same doctor every time. Oh yeah,
we have what's called we have what's called PAC teams, Brian.
They're patient aligned care teams, so you're always seeing the
same primary care physician as well as that same team,
so every time when you walk in. So for example,
the clinics that I mentioned that are expanding, they all
have their same assigned person that walks in in nine
(10:28):
out of ten times. I mean, they know these people
by their first name, they know their pet's name, they
know whether.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
The grandkids go to school. So it's a very relationship
style relationship with us.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
That's good. I think, you know, my perception is on
some level and I haven't experienced THEA services that didn't
serve but that it might be a more sterile environment
less you know of that sort of familial relationship. So
you've satisfy my curiosity on that. That's a wonderful thing
to hear. So, how do venemans apply for the VA
healthcare benefits or any eligibility requirements for veterans to roll
(11:01):
in VA healthcare services.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
Yeah, so the minimum requirements for VA healthcare service is
twenty four consecutive months.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
That's the minimum requirement.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
That's you know, not that's just your normal twenty four
consecutive months of service starting from your basic training on forward.
And there are some other specialty factors for garden reserve
personnel that served on some executive orders. But there's many, many,
many resources that people could take advantage of and find out.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
What they're eligible for.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
And first it starts with us by calling five one
three four seven five sixty four ninety nine. That's a
direct dial number two or eligibility office. Anybody can call
that and find out what their veteran Level one would
be entitled to and how to enroll in doing that. So,
you know again that's five one three four seven five
(11:49):
sixty four nine nine, that's directly to us. Now, you also,
veterans can also take advantage of their county Veteran Service Commissions,
which we have, you know, many of those here right
here in the Rice State. So in Clairemont County there's
the Veteran Service Commission, there's the Butler County Veteran Service
Commission at Hamilton County. They can also help you get
enrolled by starting the paperwork for you or telling you
(12:12):
exactly or telling veterans what to do exactly to get
enrolled and apply with us. Yeah, you know, I.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Talked to those guys all the time, the Claimont County,
butter and Hamilton County Veteran Service. Whichever one you're talking to,
they strongly encourage you to have them help you because,
as I've had it explained to me, going to the
government via website and navigating that can be a bit
of a challenge and confusing.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
Yeah. Absolutely, you know, any any big, robust organization that has,
you know, an online system is always going to have
its complexities. And I'm still very old school, you know,
I pick up the phones face to face, you know.
I know we're in a world of teams meetings and
zoom meetings, but I'm still an old school guy to
when it want to be face to face, and I
encourage people to do that because VA healthcarelli ability is
(13:00):
very complex. It's not just cutter drive whether you know
you know it's not about that you get hurt in
active duty. There's more things to it that makes it complex,
and we want to make sure we have all those
boxes checked and the people that know eligibility you know
how to navigate the series of questions based upon a
veteran's responses or.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
A spouse's responses to Thanks.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Fair enough, todd sledgend Savia get in touch with the
enrollment office directly five one three four seven five sixty
four ninety nine. And don't overlook the benefits of your
Veteran Service commissions in your county because they can be
very very helpful and also have additional resources, including some
of them that'll transport you to the VA facility, which
is a nice extra service that may be available for you.
(13:45):
Todd as always thank you for what you're doing for
the American veteran each and every day. I always enjoy
our conversations and I really do enjoy spreading the word
about what is available at the VA for them.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
Yeah. Absolutely, Brian.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
We appreciate you your your you know kind words all
time and our support and supporting us on what we're doing.
And as I always say, you know, if we're not
doing something that's the way that the veteran sees. Please
reach out to us, talk to pat advocates to it.
Don't put it in your pocket. No, as my grandfather
used to tell me, he said, don't put that frustration
(14:17):
in your pocket and walk away, because somebody else might
experience that too.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Yeah, and you may bring about a transformative change for
the benefit of the rest of your veteran friends. That's
it's right. And you're always open to hear suggestions and
comments and even criticism. Todd, thanks again my best to
everyone at the VA. Keep up the great work, my friend.
I know we'll talk again real soon. It's eight fifty six.
You didn't get a chance to listen to Live Christopher Smith,
and he was on a tear this morning Monday, Mondays,
(14:42):
Brian James, and of course the information from Todd Sledge
fit you five Caresee dot com for all that and
so much more. Tune in tomorrow for the Insight Scoop
with Bright Barton, Daniel Davis Deep Dive. Thank you Jos
Strecker for all you do, producer of the program to
Folks Stick Around run Backs up next, a full rundown
and the biggest ten lines just minutes away at the
time for the hour, A critical message, but it's important.
(15:02):
Fifty five KRC the talk station this report is
As far as the weather, Gast Shannon and I says,
we've got a Sunday day. Inner hands today with will
high of sixty three degrees. Then the coal front comes internight,
mostly cloudy, sky is down to thirty eight forty five
are high. Tomorrow will be partly cloudy start of the
day with some sun in the afternoon, twenty nine overnight
with clowns, and then on Wednesday at thlouty day showers
late in the day in a high at thirty nine
(00:24):
forty six degrees. Time for traffic from the.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
U SEE Health Traffic Center hard to see. UC is
the leading cause of death in the US. If you're
at risk, trusts the experts, So you see Health for
innovative and personal ized heartcare.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
I expect more at u sehealth dot com. There's a
broken down.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
He's found on the Reagan Tramp to southbound seventy one.
Left hand side southbound seventy five slows in and out
of Lachlan for an extra five. There's an accident in
Hamilton on North b at Black Chucking. From on fifty
five KRS the talk station.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
It is eight forty here KRCD talk station. A very
happy Monday.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
To you.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
You know me, I love my veteran friends and listening
audience and their families and do anything I can to
help spread the love and do anything we can to
help the American veteran and someone who shares my opinion
in that regard, Todd Sledge and the Cincinntiva is returning
for our cars Cares section to talk about some what
are described as significant changes coming to the VA facility.
(01:24):
Welcome back, Todd Sledge. It's always great having you on
the show. Yeah, Brian, it's always great to talk with you.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
And as she said, share this, share the motivation to
make sure our veterans are connected with what they need
to know here in Cincinnati.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Yes, indeed, So what is coming to the VA this year, Well, many.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
Of our veterans that are listening know that we've been
under a lot of construction for a very long period
of time, and so there are four significant plan completed
projects for twenty twenty five, and I just wanted to
point those out, Brian, because two of them are really
going to be phenomenal for us, and they involve two
(02:03):
of our community based out patient clinics where we are expanding.
We continue to expand So those veterans out in Claremont County,
the Eastgate area, Milford and Mount Orb and Georgetown and
the east side of Cincinnati will be moving to a
new new location this fall. It's over there, I call
it the TQL land over there in East Cape where
(02:25):
they've kind of taken over. But over there by the
TQL location, we're expanding our new clinic in the fall.
And what's significant about that move. We're also doing the
same thing with our Hamilton clinic out in Butler County.
And both of these facilities are doubling in size, so
both of them are going from Yeah, so both of
them are going from approximately like Claremont for example, they're
(02:49):
going from a sixteen thousand square foot facility to a
twenty six thousand square foot facility.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
And then Hamilton the same way.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
So both of these facilities brand new, first floor, state
of the art, plenty of parking, great expansion of it.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
And if I think of our veterans, want to take.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
A take a trip to see what they what the
new clinics will look like in Hamilton and Eastgate. We
opened up a very similar clinic like this in Dearborn.
Over there in Larnsburg, Indiana and it's it's absolutely beautiful, Brian.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
So with the larger expanded facilities, what comes along with
that it just more space, more doctors, more offices, or
the additional services are going to be offered for the veterans.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
Yeah, it's well, the some of the services, well, we'll
expand a little bit more because of the physical size
of these things. But what it does is it is
more space and the design of it is very interesting.
So if you think about these two facilities being like
a just a normal shoebox size, the providers do all
their work in the middle of the building and on
(03:51):
the between the two sides the right and left, there
are doors that access from like this inner circle or
inner working hub, and the provider goes from room to
room instead of the patient or the veteran going room
to room for different specialties, so it's.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
A different flow operation.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
Some of the things like our physical therapy and occupational
therapy sections will definitely expand and make things better for us,
as well as more office space for some different very
different specialties that happened like mental health and the dietary
and things.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Okay, Well, in addition to the expanded size, loosed locations.
Anything else coming to the facilities by way of improvements
to share, Yeah, the main hospital. The other two I
wanted to mention where primary care. Our primary care section
has been under construction that's located right off the first floor.
That will open up again here in twenty twenty five,
which again is just making it more space, easier for
(04:45):
veterans to navigate, and just a very much of an update.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
When we put that expansion on in.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
The early nineties, obviously we've outgrown it, and then every
veteran knows who comes to the facility come through this big, large,
revolving door.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
We have.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
Our lobbies been under innovation and it's starting to show
glimpses of what that's going to look like. And we're
very excited about how that's going to look. Where things
are just more serviceable, it's not chopped up and more inviting,
with a really really nice main lobby, piece of piece
of marble that's in the middle of that's going to
be very attractive. Well great well, and I know the
(05:20):
number of veterans who now signed up for Vacare has increased,
and that's the goal over the vas to get those
veterans on to take advantage of their VA benefits, which
is literally healthcare. Yeah, absolutely, and so our fiscal year
runs very differently than a normal calendar season. We ended
our twenty twenty four fiscal calendar year September thirtieth of
(05:43):
twenty twenty four, And to your point, Brian was the
most number of veterans we've seen in one given year.
And so I think veterans are starting to understand about
how and through your help and the different stuff that
we do, about how to take advantage of these benefits
and how to make a VA healthcare part of their
healthcare portfolio. And I think some of the myths and
(06:06):
misconceptions about who's eligible for VA healthcare is really come
into place. So we're really excited about our efforts and
how we're reaching folks, and we're looking to expand that
as well. And I've always said, what not a better
place to be served every day by staff who know
exactly what veterans are looking for and the different things
that they deal with. And it's so critical hearing, absolutely,
(06:29):
the hearing loss and the prosthetics and the eye here,
but particularly the toxic exposure stuff, which we're really high
on here.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Over the past two years.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Well, let's pause. We'll bring Todd back talk about enrolling
and what types of healthcare services are there, and how
veterans can apply and all these good fun facts. More
with Todd Sledge and the Sinceinniva. After these brief words,
fifty five KRC, you're one more time for the weather.
Chann nine says beautiful day to day, sunny skye's in
the highest sixty three overnight down to thirty eight with clowns,
(07:01):
partly cloudy beginning tomorrow sun later in the day.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
At some point forty five will be the high.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Overnight down to twenty nine with clouds and a cloudy
Wednesday rain late in the day high of thirty nine
closing out of forty seven degrees. Time for final traffic
Chuck from.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
The UC Health Traffic Center.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Heart disease as the leading cause of death in the US.
If you're at risk, trust the experts at you see
hell for innovative and personalized hardcare. Expect more at ucehealth
dot com. Sup Bend seventy five continues to slow through Wakland.
That's under a five minute delay and the last of
the heavy traffic for the Monday morning commute. Cruis are
(07:40):
working with the Wreck and Hamilton on North b at
Black Chuck ing ramon fifty five krs, the talk station.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Hey forty nine people have rc Detalk Station, Happy Monday,
Deep Dive with Daniel Davis and the Bright Part Inside
Scoop Tomorrow the Morning Show among other topics, and in
the meantime Todd Sledge and the CINCINNTI of the A.
All right, everybody know about the improvements coming to the
various facilities making it easier to navigate, expanded room for
the veterans to get their health care there, and let
us pivot over to getting even more of the veterans
(08:11):
enrolled in the VA health system. How can enrolling in
the VA health services improve a veterans over all health
and well being?
Speaker 4 (08:17):
Todd Well, Brian, you know, one of the things I
like to focus on with this is that there are
so many different things that we can do that's more
financially efficient, easier for veterans to do, and a lot
of less with a lot of less way times, as
you're probably well aware, there's a lot of different specialty
(08:37):
type services in the community that are very hard to
get into. P dietary dermatology sometimes you know, seeing an
audiologist some different folks, and these are things that we
by mandate we have to get you a scheduled appointment
within thirty days to be seen or find some other
arrangements for you to be seen. So that's you know,
(08:58):
that's one of the overall health and well being. But
one of the main things is is our preventative medicine model,
where you know, we can do things with different specialty
tests and prevention measures of things that the private sector
really can't offer or they're going to run through your insurance.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
So I always encourage people to do that.
Speaker 4 (09:16):
And you know this when it comes to again I'm
going to repeat myself when it comes to the eyeglasses
and hearing aids, yeah, and cost efficient measure of that.
But more particularly, you know, when I think of services
like mental health helping that you know, with with with
all the mental health services that we have, our home
care programs that we have in house care of things,
(09:37):
and just you know, and overall really old family medicine style.
You know, you know, your provider's my name, you know,
your nurse is by name, which is a very different
relationship when it comes to I think people going to
the doctor, especially stubborn people that avoid the doctor, like myself.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Oh so much. Like I have my own primary care
physician who I've been going to for geese years and
years and years. It's the same type of thing going
on with the VA. You're just not assigned a primary
care physician randomly.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
When you go in.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
You get to see the same doctor every time. Oh yeah,
we have what's called we have what's called PAC teams, Brian.
They're patient aligned care teams, so you're always seeing the
same primary care physician as well as that same team,
so every time when you walk in. So for example,
the clinics that I mentioned that are expanding, they all
have their same assigned person that walks in in nine
(10:28):
out of ten times. I mean, they know these people
by their first name, they know their pet's name, they
know whether.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
The grandkids go to school. So it's a very relationship
style relationship with us.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
That's good. I think, you know, my perception is on
some level and I haven't experienced THEA services that didn't
serve but that it might be a more sterile environment
less you know of that sort of familial relationship. So
you've satisfy my curiosity on that. That's a wonderful thing
to hear. So, how do venemans apply for the VA
healthcare benefits or any eligibility requirements for veterans to roll
(11:01):
in VA healthcare services.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
Yeah, so the minimum requirements for VA healthcare service is
twenty four consecutive months.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
That's the minimum requirement.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
That's you know, not that's just your normal twenty four
consecutive months of service starting from your basic training on forward.
And there are some other specialty factors for garden reserve
personnel that served on some executive orders. But there's many, many,
many resources that people could take advantage of and find out.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
What they're eligible for.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
And first it starts with us by calling five one
three four seven five sixty four ninety nine. That's a
direct dial number two or eligibility office. Anybody can call
that and find out what their veteran Level one would
be entitled to and how to enroll in doing that. So,
you know again that's five one three four seven five
(11:49):
sixty four nine nine, that's directly to us. Now, you also,
veterans can also take advantage of their county Veteran Service Commissions,
which we have, you know, many of those here right
here in the Rice State. So in Clairemont County there's
the Veteran Service Commission, there's the Butler County Veteran Service
Commission at Hamilton County. They can also help you get
enrolled by starting the paperwork for you or telling you
(12:12):
exactly or telling veterans what to do exactly to get
enrolled and apply with us. Yeah, you know, I.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Talked to those guys all the time, the Claimont County,
butter and Hamilton County Veteran Service. Whichever one you're talking to,
they strongly encourage you to have them help you because,
as I've had it explained to me, going to the
government via website and navigating that can be a bit
of a challenge and confusing.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
Yeah. Absolutely, you know, any any big, robust organization that has,
you know, an online system is always going to have
its complexities. And I'm still very old school, you know,
I pick up the phones face to face, you know.
I know we're in a world of teams meetings and
zoom meetings, but I'm still an old school guy to
when it want to be face to face, and I
encourage people to do that because VA healthcarelli ability is
(13:00):
very complex. It's not just cutter drive whether you know
you know it's not about that you get hurt in
active duty. There's more things to it that makes it complex,
and we want to make sure we have all those
boxes checked and the people that know eligibility you know
how to navigate the series of questions based upon a
veteran's responses or.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
A spouse's responses to Thanks.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Fair enough, todd sledgend Savia get in touch with the
enrollment office directly five one three four seven five sixty
four ninety nine. And don't overlook the benefits of your
Veteran Service commissions in your county because they can be
very very helpful and also have additional resources, including some
of them that'll transport you to the VA facility, which
is a nice extra service that may be available for you.
(13:45):
Todd as always thank you for what you're doing for
the American veteran each and every day. I always enjoy
our conversations and I really do enjoy spreading the word
about what is available at the VA for them.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
Yeah. Absolutely, Brian.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
We appreciate you your your you know kind words all
time and our support and supporting us on what we're doing.
And as I always say, you know, if we're not
doing something that's the way that the veteran sees. Please
reach out to us, talk to pat advocates to it.
Don't put it in your pocket. No, as my grandfather
used to tell me, he said, don't put that frustration
(14:17):
in your pocket and walk away, because somebody else might
experience that too.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Yeah, and you may bring about a transformative change for
the benefit of the rest of your veteran friends. That's
it's right. And you're always open to hear suggestions and
comments and even criticism. Todd, thanks again my best to
everyone at the VA. Keep up the great work, my friend.
I know we'll talk again real soon. It's eight fifty six.
You didn't get a chance to listen to Live Christopher Smith,
and he was on a tear this morning Monday, Mondays,
(14:42):
Brian James, and of course the information from Todd Sledge
fit you five Caresee dot com for all that and
so much more. Tune in tomorrow for the Insight Scoop
with Bright Barton, Daniel Davis Deep Dive. Thank you Jos
Strecker for all you do, producer of the program to
Folks Stick Around run Backs up next, a full rundown
and the biggest ten lines just minutes away at the
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