Often individuals with catastrophic injuries or spinal cord disease must manage secondary conditions that are part of the complication of paralysis. When care is not delivered with true coordination methods, those conditions can reduce quality of life and in some cases become life threatening. Thus, care for individuals with spinal cord injury or disease (SCI/D) […]
Paralyzed Veterans of America Blog
PVA Summit Fosters Collaboration on SCI/D Medicine
Future of VA: Interview with ED Sherman Gillums & KSEV Houston
Listen to the interview with Ed Sherman Gillums Jr., chief strategy officer of American Veterans on the future of veterans.
Spinal Cord Injury & Disease Conference Encourages Medical Collaboration
On August 29 nearly 1,000 physicians, nurses, psychologists, social workers, therapists, researchers, pharmacists, dietitians, and educators will converge near Washington, DC, for Paralyzed Veterans of America’s (Paralyzed Veterans) Summit 2017, an annual conference that advances the level of care of veterans living with Spinal Cord Injury and Disease (SCI/D).
DC VA Director Fire-Rehire Tests New VA Accountability Law
The phone rings after my call is transferred by the executive assistant to the hospital director’s direct line. The director picks up: “Hello.” I speak: “Hello, Mr. Hawkins. I’m hoping to get your help with a problem that I’m having with the DC Prosthetic Office. I had a wheelchair ordered over seven months ago, and apparently […]