It makes me wonder too about the lack of emergency care at some VA's after a certain time-like after 4:30- that we discussed recently.
On the police scanner there have been three calls to the same home in another town in the past 5-6 weeks due to a vet saying he would commit suicide.
I heard the ambulance and the police respond today and they took him over to the local VAMC.
But their stress ward was closed years ago (at least the shrinks were still at work-it was about 3 PM)and I also heard -can anyone confirm this?- that the psychiatric ward at Canandaigua VAMC is closing in November.
I wonder where this vet will go in the future for extensive care.
Canandaigua VAMC is the only other close VAMC in this area. They were talking about shutting the whole place down 3-4 years ago but the vets really protested.The hospital has had problems but they seem to have excellent psychiatric care available.
This vet had three possible suicide attempt ambulance calls in such a short period of time- it bothers me that
it seems nothing is being done for him.
This time the 911 caller said he had loaded up his weapons-which he never did before.
It just makes me really wonder just what care a suicidal veteran can really get around these parts.
Maybe the VA is not taking these 911 calls seriously and the result of that could be deadly.At least there appears to be someone with him to make the 911 calls. I sure think this person should be pressuring the VA to do more for him.
Someone should remove the weapons too.
GRADUATE ! Nov 2nd 2007 American Military University !
When thousands of Americans faced annihilation in the 1800s Chief
Osceola's response to his people, the Seminoles, was
simply "They(the US Army)have guns, but so do we."
Sameo to us -They (VA) have 38 CFR ,38 USC, and M21-1- but so do we.
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This happened recently- I have not seen anything about the care he was getting at VA and this article suggests his suicide was to make a statement.
I wonder if he had been denied enough psychiatric care. The FBI is investigating this as it happened on federal property-right at the VA.
http://www.timesleader.com/mld/timesleader/15785622.htm
It makes me wonder too about the lack of emergency care at some VA's after a certain time-like after 4:30- that we discussed recently.
On the police scanner there have been three calls to the same home in another town in the past 5-6 weeks due to a vet saying he would commit suicide.
I heard the ambulance and the police respond today and they took him over to the local VAMC.
But their stress ward was closed years ago (at least the shrinks were still at work-it was about 3 PM)and I also heard -can anyone confirm this?- that the psychiatric ward at Canandaigua VAMC is closing in November.
I wonder where this vet will go in the future for extensive care.
Canandaigua VAMC is the only other close VAMC in this area. They were talking about shutting the whole place down 3-4 years ago but the vets really protested.The hospital has had problems but they seem to have excellent psychiatric care available.
This vet had three possible suicide attempt ambulance calls in such a short period of time- it bothers me that
it seems nothing is being done for him.
This time the 911 caller said he had loaded up his weapons-which he never did before.
It just makes me really wonder just what care a suicidal veteran can really get around these parts.
Maybe the VA is not taking these 911 calls seriously and the result of that could be deadly.At least there appears to be someone with him to make the 911 calls. I sure think this person should be pressuring the VA to do more for him.
Someone should remove the weapons too.
GRADUATE ! Nov 2nd 2007 American Military University !
When thousands of Americans faced annihilation in the 1800s Chief
Osceola's response to his people, the Seminoles, was
simply "They(the US Army)have guns, but so do we."
Sameo to us -They (VA) have 38 CFR ,38 USC, and M21-1- but so do we.
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