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Medical Center offers help to UW-Eau Claire veterans
Connie Bengston and Brad Foss
Issue date: 5/7/09 Section: Letters
The United States Department of Veteran's Affairs, through the extended care line of the Minneapolis VA Medical Center, is conducting outreach to all veterans who were deployed to a combat zone after Nov. 11, 1998, through the present day. This includes service in Kosovo, Kuwait and East Africa, as well as Iraq and Afghanistan.
The goal of the VA is to provide reintegration services to veterans. This program, entitled Operation Enduring Freedom/Operation Iraqi Freedom (OEF/OIF), represents an emerging model within the VA that emphasizes community-based, early-intervention services focusing on the veterans' needs.
Program service begins by ensuring that each veteran's return to his or her community is smooth and supportive, giving special emphasis to the following service areas:
- Arranging access to needed VA Medical Center services specifically, ensuring that veterans are aware of the five-year free health care access at the VA in Chippewa Falls or in Minneapolis.
- Supporting veterans and their families as they readjust to life after military service.
- Giving individualized care, specific to each veteran's unique post-combat readjustment needs through comprehensive assessment, service allocation and case coordination.
- Providing information and assistance regarding benefits and eligibility in the areas of medical & mental health, employment, education, financial, dental, and compensation and pension.
- Assisting with contact information for VA services and community-based resources.
- Coordinating with various community-based providers.
- Being available to assist veterans with information and access to services when unexpected needs arise.
Over the summer, the OEF/OIF team is interested in meeting with UW-Eau Claire veterans and staff to determine how the VA can enhance veteran services within the Eau Claire campus. They need individual veteran's ideas and knowledge about the experience of being a veteran at the university.
Please contact Connie Bengston or Brad Foss, who would like to sit down for a brief interview focused on the experience at the university as well as to hear ideas to enhance the experience for veterans.
In addition, we can provide you with information on benefits and services available through the VA.
To get in touch with your OEF/OIF VA representative, please contact either Connie Bengston RN, BSN at (612)629-7527 or connie.bengston@va.gov, or Brad Foss at (612)250-9627 or bradley.foss@va.gov. They will meet you where you are at. You served us, so now let us serve you.
Connie Bengston
Brad Foss
Minneapolis, Minn.
Rice Lake, Wis.
The goal of the VA is to provide reintegration services to veterans. This program, entitled Operation Enduring Freedom/Operation Iraqi Freedom (OEF/OIF), represents an emerging model within the VA that emphasizes community-based, early-intervention services focusing on the veterans' needs.
Program service begins by ensuring that each veteran's return to his or her community is smooth and supportive, giving special emphasis to the following service areas:
- Arranging access to needed VA Medical Center services specifically, ensuring that veterans are aware of the five-year free health care access at the VA in Chippewa Falls or in Minneapolis.
- Supporting veterans and their families as they readjust to life after military service.
- Giving individualized care, specific to each veteran's unique post-combat readjustment needs through comprehensive assessment, service allocation and case coordination.
- Providing information and assistance regarding benefits and eligibility in the areas of medical & mental health, employment, education, financial, dental, and compensation and pension.
- Assisting with contact information for VA services and community-based resources.
- Coordinating with various community-based providers.
- Being available to assist veterans with information and access to services when unexpected needs arise.
Over the summer, the OEF/OIF team is interested in meeting with UW-Eau Claire veterans and staff to determine how the VA can enhance veteran services within the Eau Claire campus. They need individual veteran's ideas and knowledge about the experience of being a veteran at the university.
Please contact Connie Bengston or Brad Foss, who would like to sit down for a brief interview focused on the experience at the university as well as to hear ideas to enhance the experience for veterans.
In addition, we can provide you with information on benefits and services available through the VA.
To get in touch with your OEF/OIF VA representative, please contact either Connie Bengston RN, BSN at (612)629-7527 or connie.bengston@va.gov, or Brad Foss at (612)250-9627 or bradley.foss@va.gov. They will meet you where you are at. You served us, so now let us serve you.
Connie Bengston
Brad Foss
Minneapolis, Minn.
Rice Lake, Wis.
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