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Op-Ed Praises VA Achievements
"I am preparing to retire from federal service and from my position as the chief executive officer of the Corporal Michael J. Crescenz Veterans Affairs Medical Center here in Philadelphia. I would like to take this opportunity to provide information, not only about the outstanding services provided by our health care system, but also highlighting a few of the amazing improvements we have achieved as an organization in an effort to better serve our veterans."
By VA Center for Health Equity Research & Promotion
Wednesday, January 2, 2019
Daniel Hendee is retiring as director of the Corporal Michael J. Crescenz Veterans Affairs Medical Center. In an Op-Ed published in the January 2, 2019 issue of the Philadelphia Inquirer, Mr. Hendee praised the accomplishments of VA staff, along with collaborators at the University of Pennsylvania and the City of Philadelphia.
Researchers at CHERP’s Philadelphia site also serve as faculty members at the University of Pennsylvania, and Mr. Hendee highlighted the major benefits of this collaboration in both research and medical education.
He highlighted two especially significant achievements in his commentary:
“As a couple of noteworthy achievements, we have effectively eliminated Hepatitis C in veterans of Philadelphia, many of whom suffered from this condition for years, by treating and curing over 1,500 veterans with groundbreaking medication. We functionally ended veteran homelessness in 2015 together with our City of Philadelphia partners. This truly was a landmark accomplishment that had seemed impossible only years before."
Read the full article in the Philadelphia Inquirer.
The contents of this article and this webpage do not necessarily reflect the views of the US government or the Department of Veterans Affairs.
