{"id":96,"date":"2016-06-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-15T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/defranciscolaw.lawblogger.net\/blog\/va-admits-failure-to-provide-qualified-professionals-for-tbi-screening\/"},"modified":"2017-10-23T12:28:01","modified_gmt":"2017-10-23T16:28:01","slug":"va-admits-failure-to-provide-qualified-professionals-for-tbi-screening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/va-admits-failure-to-provide-qualified-professionals-for-tbi-screening\/","title":{"rendered":"VA admits failure to provide qualified professionals for TBI screening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Traumatic brain injury can have a variety of serious effects for those who suffer from it. It is estimated that around 30 percent of injury-related deaths are caused by traumatic brain injury. This is why it is so important for those who may have suffered a traumatic brain injury to be checked out by a competent physician and promptly treated.<\/p>\n<p>Traumatic brain injury occurs because of a blow to the head which disrupts the ordinary functioning of the brain, and is very common among veterans who served in Afghanistan and Iraq. Unfortunately, the Department of Veterans Affairs doesn\u2019t always offer the quality of care vets need to address head injuries.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For example, the VA <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2016\/06\/02\/va-admits-it-failed-to-properly-diagnose-24000-vets-with-traumatic-brain-injury\/\" target=\"_blank\">recently<\/a> came out and acknowledged that around 24,000 veterans were not properly treated for traumatic brain injuries between 2007 and 2015. According to a letter sent out to VA patients, VA hospital staff failed to conduct adequate initial examinations for traumatic brain injury on thousands of veterans. Specifically, qualified specialists were not provided to review vets\u2019 condition and patients may not have been properly diagnosed as a result.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/va-admits-failure-to-provide-qualified-professionals-for-tbi-screening\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading VA admits failure to provide qualified professionals for TBI screening\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Traumatic brain injury can have a variety of serious effects for those who suffer from it. It is estimated that around 30 percent of injury-related deaths are caused by traumatic brain injury. This is why it is so important for those who may have suffered a traumatic brain injury to be checked out by a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-96","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brain-injury","tag-brain-injury"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>VA admits failure to provide qualified professionals for TBI screening &#8212; Syracuse Personal Injury Law Blog &#8212; June 15, 2016<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"VA admits failure to provide qualified professionals for TBI screening - Brain Injury - DeFrancisco &amp; Falgiatano Law Firm\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/va-admits-failure-to-provide-qualified-professionals-for-tbi-screening\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"VA admits failure to provide qualified professionals for TBI screening &#8212; 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