VA Announces Adiustments in Claims Review of Comp Cases
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w JC Lrg :line aits x lting~----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------_______________________________________________________________________ XXXVI, NO.5 DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS' SEMI-MONTHLY, OCT. 16, 1957 WHOLE NUMBER 905 ~qU ~'---------------------------------------------------------------_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ :l cru spital Treatment Helps VA Announces Adiustments In habilitateQuadriplegics vA Reveals Devices V sed To Claims Review OF Comp Cases elp Patients Re-learn To Work 5,421 Increases, 19,629 Decreases HINGTON, D C.-Veterans with paralyzed arms and legs, Moving Of Three And 23,344 Terminations Reported G lly known as quadriplegics, are learning to work again in d : ns Administration hospitals as part of their medical treat Area Medical Offices WASI;IINGTON, D. C. - Veterans Administration has reported ~o. 6. VA revealed today. that 48,394 compensation and pension cases added to the rolls after fastened to the paralyzed hands and VA-invented devices World War II required adjustments in the claims review now to a standard typewriter make typing possible for some. I Announced By VA underway. through special devices WASHINGTON, D. C.-Three VA said the figure is cumulative to June 30, 1957, and that it ning drafting, photogra Veterans Administration area involves 7.8 per cent of the 621,000 cases reviewed to that date. oodworking, metal work, medical offices ",.jll be moved as The adjustments included 5,421 !liQ and TV repair. 5Million Home part of a geographical realignment increases in monthly payments to 450 quadriplegics are in of VA medical areas to provide match a worsening in the degree en V A hospitals that have more efficient administration, VA of disability, 19,629 decreases In VA Evaluating centers for treatJnent of Loans Granted said recently. lllonthly payments to match an with spinal cord injuries. When space can be obtained and improvement in the degree of dis ability, and 23,344 terminations of New Drugs Used e victims of gunshot wounds Under VA ~r~gram adequate notice can be given to dents. payments. WASHINGTON, D. C.-The five personnel, the Columbus, Ohio, y-seven are patients at the office will be moved to Indianapolis, Of the 23,344 terminations, 16,- millionth GI home loan was guar- ' 668 were ended primarily because In Mental Treatment hospital; 31, at Cleveland; anteed by Veterans Administra Ind., and the St. Paul, Minn., office Hines, Ill.; 95, ' at Long of improvement in disability to a WASHINGTON, D. C.-Newer tion during September, 1957. will be moved to Omaha, Nebr. Cal.; 82, at" Memphis; 70, level of no longer justifying mone drugs for treatment of mental ill VA said the .5.000.000 borne loans, The St. Louis office will be moved 'mon'd, Va., and 50 at West tary awards, and 6,676 were term ness will be evaluated by Veterans totaling nearly $42-billion, have to Dallas, Tex., but no date for the y, Mass. inated after V A found "clear and Administration in a continuing been made to World War II and move has been set. of the typewriter devices, a Approximately 28 persons are unmistakable error" in associating large-scale research program, VA Korean conftict veterans during announced today. lastic sheet with a steel the 13 years the GI loan program employed in each of· the three the disability with the period of and a brass rod, helps guide military service. Dr. Jesse F. Casey, VA director bas been in operation. offices, which supervise VA medi- With a few exceptions, service- into the machine and lift of psychiatry and neurology serv '0 self cal programs in multistate areas. connection has been confirmed in Is, hYSI er bail bar. It was designed Of the $42 billion, VA has guar ice, said the cooperative stUdy of dIsabled In realignment of areas, juris- the case of the 16,668 veterans )LE educational therapy chief anteed or insured about 55 per tranquilizing drugs, begun in reet cent. diction for the upper peninsula of whose payments were stopped be needs. Mempbis hospital, Thomas April, 1957, will serve as the basic ORP •• Michigan and the states of Wis- N.Y. 3 hes. Nearly 22 per cent of the 5,- consin and Illinois will be trans- cause of improvement in disability, project for a series of studies con 000,000 home loans, or 1,080,000, , Cent .. ther is a knob with four ferred from the St. Paul area and these veterans may be re- cerned with chemotherapy in psy 'hyslcalb ing metal pins, designed by have been completely paid back by turned to the compensation rolls if chiatry. medical office to the Indianapolis their service-connected ailments vern Link, rehabilitation veteran borrowers. area medical office. A second or follow-up three g officer at the VA regional VA reported also that only 34,- again become disabling, VA said. Jurisdiction for the state of Kan. VA added that veterans involved month study of more than half in Nashville. The paralyzed 000 home loans, or less than seven- sas will be transferred from the in adverse changes have the right the 1,000 patients in the original It inserts a typing peg be- tenths of one per cent of the total, GOVERNOR OF NEBRASKA, Victor E. Anderson, presents the state flag of Nebraska to DAV St. Louis area medical office to the to appeal to the VA Board of Vet project now is underway at 29 VA two of the pins for leverage have resulted in claims paid by the Department Commander C. D. Jack Head, at the ninth annual department convention held at Omaha area medical office. erans Appeals if they believe the hospitals. in paper backward or for Government, provi~g that v.ete~~s Grand Island. DAVis the only organization to ever be so honored in Nebraska. Left to right After the Dallas area medIcal, changes were not justified. The research program at VA in the typewriter. haTvel been outstanding tCredif talrllsGs·\ are' Dept Commander Head, Immediate Past Commander Walter R. "Tiny" Schultz, and Governor office is established, jurisdiction Through June 30, a second re psychiatric hospitals will be simi tfting is difficult for quad 1e average amoun 0 I •• . lar to VA's chemotherapy of tuber home loans made to date is $8,400. Anderson. (Plercy photo) for the state of Missouri will be view had been ordered for an es lcs, even with a drafting ma- transferred to the new Omaha timated 115,000 cases in order to culosis program for testing new Some of the difficulty is In addition to the more than ~--------~--~~----~------------------------------------------------------------------- office. confi= their accuracy and protect TB drugs, results of which have ardDme at VA hospi.tals by using 5,000,000 home loans closed thus been used by the entire medical far, VA has guaranteed or insured The realignment is to equalize both the veterans and the Govern !Cial drafting machine that the work load among the area ment. Many of these second re profession since 1946, Dr. Casey ns in place after positioning. 70,800 farm loans and 230,000 busi Atomic Medicine Used Recent Visitors said. l ___ .ong jobs related to drafting, ness loans. These two types of medical offices. views have been finished and are loans total more than $913 million. All told, VA has seven area included in the 621,000 completed' "We plan to test the newer iplegics can learn to do a , , At Headquarters medical offices. The offices located cases, VA said. well, including checking World 'Var II ,,'eterans have drugs in psychiatry as they are ~gwa;r in Boston, Trenton, N. J., Af.).anta, Started in 1954 the review is developed for clinical use," Dr. ·----ngs and materials control, until July 25, 1958, to apply for CINCINNATI, OhiO-The fol- To Probe Mental Illness and San Francisco are not atTected designed to cove~ all cases of Casey said. "These may include I nining the amount of ma- V A guaranty of GI loans. Korean lowing members and friends were by the move. World War II o:c peacetime-vet newer tranquilizers, psychic ener o 0 order, VA- said. conflict vetera.ns must have their recent visitors at National Head ClL\lectronics, quadriplegics are loans completed before February Nationwide Hospital Research quarters: erans under age 55 who are re gizers, anti-hallucinatory drugs, and others." ng to perform testing and 1, 1965. Everett Hickel, Spring Valley, Dr. Chamberlain ceiving compensation for service :ting satisfactorily. Special Program Announced By V A Ohio; life member Chapter No. 92, connected disabilities and all vet The first VA cooperative study Xenia. To Head Atomic erans under 55 who are receiving of tranquilizing drugs covered a and wristlets stabilize the D' WASHINGTON, D. C. - Veterans Administration for the first pensions for nonservice-connected period of three months and in t t Of George Lewis, Jamestown, Ohio; l, and tool~ are fit~ed with: epar men time is using atomic medicine to probe the baffiing mysteries of volved 40 hospitals, Although a that are mserted mto the I • life member and commander of 1,716,000 cases AP mental illness. Medicine Program di!~::~~~~~ately wealth of data concerning reaction Chapter No. 92, Xenia, accom WASHINGTON, D. C.-Dr. W. had been identified for review to of patients to tranquilizers was ,ets.aring individually designed a ecelves By tagging substances with radioactive phosphorus, researchers panied by Laurence P. LeValley Ut hR DAV I Edward Chamberlain, professor June 30, VA said. gathered in the study, analysis of .nd 1 and cuffs to stabilize tl).e at the VA hospital in Sepulveda, Calif., are tracing the compounds and James W. Green, Sr., both M b h" A d emeritus of radiology at Temple data will require several more . and hands, quadriplegics through complex chemical and biological changes in the body for of Xenia, Ohio and members of em ers Ip war University Medical School and months before information on re to use cameras, develop film, clues to the origin of mental disease.