Stateline New Mexico; 502; Veteran's Services

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CAPTIONING. ARE CHARGED WITH THEIR CARE, >> WELCOME TO STATE LINE NEW MEXICO'S LEADERS. I AM DEANNA SAUCEDA, AND THE KNEW HOSE. NOVICE A MONTH WE HONOR THOSE LIBERTIES. MEXICO DEPARTMENT OF VETERAN

SERVICES AND BLAS FALLCON, ALBUQUERQUE CENTER, 186-6337 >> FIRST OFF, I WANT TO THANK BOTH VIETNAM VETERANS AND IT IS ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I HAVE JUNCTURE WHEN IT COMES TO VETERANS WHO ARE RETURNING FROM IRAQ. AGING VETERANS, FROM THE VIETNAM WAR, KOREA AND AS A RESULT THAT IS PUTTING STRESS ON VETERANS SERVICES. >> I JUST WANT TO THANK YOU FORALLOWING US TO COME AND SHARE THOUGHT THOUGHTS REGARDING VETERANS RICH LEGACY UNLIKE ANY

ON TERRORISM, IRAQ, NEW MEXICO IS NO. 1 IN DRAFTING PERCENTAGE DURING VIETNAM AND 26 MILLION IN THE STATE BY VISITING COMMUNITIES AND ASKING SOME TWO THINGS POPPED UP WHICH WAS TRAINING, HOUSING, EDUCATION, AND MEMORIALS AND MONUMENTS. THEY WANT LEGACY TOLD. IT IS AGING POPULATION, WORLD WAR II VETERANS DIEING AT RATE OF 1300, 1500 A DAY AND SO WE HAVE GOT VIETNAM VETERANS AND WORLD WAR II IN MID 80'S, IT HEALTHCARE IS A BIG ISSUE WE'RE STRESSING VA SYSTEM.

>> WE HAD SOMETHING BIG HAPPEN LEGISLATION PASSED THAT WOULD >> BLAS: THAT IS RIGHT. THE HOUSE SENATE CONFERENCE COMMITTEE TODAY, APPROVED 82 BILLION-DOLLAR FUNDING PACKAGE FOR BOTH THE VETERANS AND MILITARY CONSTRUCTION AND BENEFITS SO THAT HAS BEEN LONG 8 AND A HALF% FOR VETERANS AND THINK WHAT THAT MEANS IS THAT PTSD. >> TELL US WHAT THAT IS. >> POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER AND THAT IS THE RESULT WAY IN WAR CONDITIONS AND DEVELOPING SOME PSYCHIATRIC OR STRESS REACTION RESPONSES. ONCE THEY GET OUT OF THE WAR

ZONE AND INTO A SAFE PLACE LIKE BACK AT HOME, THEN, THEY CAN START TO UNDERSTAND WHAT THEY THE TOLL WAR HAS TAKEN ON THEM NOW, THE VET CENTER HAS HAD UNIQUE EXPERIENCE OF BEING ABLE IRAQI VETERANS. I JUST RECENTLY WENT TO IF THE LEWIS WASHINGTON AND MET WITH SO THIS WAS A NOVEL WAY AND UNIQUE WAY THAT WE LEARNED FROM REACHING OUT TO VETERANS AND HERE WE'RE MEETING THEM AS THEY >> THANKS HAVE CHANGED VERY MUCH, SAY WHEN YOU RETURNED THAT CASES HERE IN ALBUQUERQUE AREA

THAT INVOLVED SOME VETERANS SUFFERING FROM PTSD AND ONE OF FORMER MARINE. ANOTHER CASE, MAYBE NOT AS WELL-KNOWN, WAS THAT OF GREG MORE IS 57 OF CHAMA. SERVICES, CERTAIN NUMBER OF REVIEWED. THIS, HE ACTUALLY COMMITTED >> JOHN: AGAIN, I WANT TO ADD, PTSD, DOESN'T SHOW UP THE DAY IT SHOWS ITSELF FIVE, YEARS, 10 YEARS LATER. REVIEW 72,000 CASES FROM THE YEAR 2000, 2004, THOSE 72,000 DAYSES CAME OUT TO A TOTAL OF 4.5 BILLION-DOLLARS OF

THE COUNTRY IN TERMS OF VETERANS OFFICERS DOING GREAT JOB IN BENEFITS, VA DECIDED TO REVIEW CASES AND DID A SAMING OF 2500 OF WHICH 300 WERE TARGETED IN NEW MEXICO. THINKING THEY WERE GOING TO LOSE DISABILITY THOUGHT THEY WOULD YOU HURT THEM ALL AND IT BECAME ATTITUDE AROUND THE COUNTRY AND MR. MORRIS FELT THEY WERE GOING DECIDED TO TAKE HIS LIFE. THEY FOUND HIM WITH HIS PURPLE. >> Hart: NEXT TO HIM ALONG WITH OPPORTUNITY TO TESTIFY BEFORE

FEW SHORT DAYS LATER, THEY AND FELT THAT IT WAS AN ERROR AND THEY DID NOT NEED TO REVIEW PTSD IS MAJOR ISSUE. HIGHER PERCENTAGE. >> RIGHT NOW, WHAT IS BEING DONE TO HELP DEAL WITH PTSD AND WHAT TYPE OF HELP IS AVAILABLE, WHAT TYPE OF THINGS THAT ARE WORKING? >> JOHN: A COUPLE THINGS WE DO, SERVICE OFFICERS TRAINED TO THEM TO BLAS'S OFFICE. THERE IS ONE IN FARMINGTON, HERE. VETERANS GO THROUGH THE PROCESS WORK WITH BLAS AND HELP THESE

PEOPLE WORK THROUGH PTSD CASES. A LOT OF TIMES NOT VETERANS BUT >> BLAS: I THINK CONNECTION JOHN, WHEN WE WORK INDIVIDUALLY THE VETERAN WITH POST TRAUMATIC STRESS, WE TRY AND INCLUDE BETTER HISTORIAN THAN THE VETERAN WHO, IN CASE OF VIETNAM, OR WORLD WAR II, KOREA, THESE VETERANS ARE -- THEY HAVE MEMORY PROBLEMS, THEY ARE ANXIOUS, THEY A PARTNERSHIP. THAT. >> JOHN: WITH WAR ON TERRORISM AND 9-11 ISSUES HAPPENED AND WE WENT TO WAR, VA INUNDATED WITH MANY VIETNAM VETERANS AND ALL OF ISSUE.

>> DEANNA: WHAT IS YOUR WERE? >> CALLER: I WOULD BE INTERESTED SEEMS TO BE THE ONE WHO VOTES AGAINST ANY VETERANS' BENEFITS AND HE DOES THIS CONSISTENTLY. I REALIZE HE IS NOT A VETERAN, NOR IS OUR ESTEEMED PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT AND DAMN NEAR ANYBODY ELSE IN THE >> DEANNA: WHAT HAS BEEN DOMENICI'S TRACK RECORD. ISSUES? >> JOHN: OUR DEPARTMENT WE AWARE OF THE NEEDS OF THE VETERANS, NEW SENSE OF URGENCY. THE VA VET OFFICE, SECRETARY NICHOLSON, THAT OFFICE IS ONLY CREATED FIRST CABINET LEVEL

HAVE OPPORTUNITY TO MEET WITH APRICE HIM OF ISSUES OR CONCERNS IN HOUSE AND SENATE, MEMBERS ARE VETERANS. VETERANS, ONE, IS MAKE SURE THAT VETERANS. SAY, AND IN INFORMING OUR CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION OF BECOMING AWARE OF THE ISSUES. >> DEANNA: LOUISE IN RATON, A QUESTION ABOUT LONG-TERM CARE. >> CALLER: I SURE DO. GARCIA WHEN HE SAID ABOUT OUR CURRENT PRESIDENT AND EVEN VICE AND MY HUSBAND WAS IN THE

MILITARY EIGHT YEARS AND HE IS 78 AND HE HAS GOT PAR KIN SONS. >> DEANNA: DO YOU HAVE A >> MY QUESTION IS ABOUT BE HARD FOR US AND VETERANS HOSPITAL IN ALBUQUERQUE. >> DEANNA: LOUISE BRINGS UP A GREAT QUESTION, A LOT OF THEM, HOW DO THEY GET SERVICES IN LONG-TERM CARE? >> BLAS: YOU KNOW, LOUISE BRINGS UP A GOOD POINT AND WE DO SERVICES AVAILABLE THROUGHOUT FOR EXAMPLE, 70% SERVICE CONNECTED, HE CAN GO INTO VA NURSING HOME BUT VA EQUIPPED TO PROVIDE CONTRACT HOME HEALTHCARE CENTER, BUT THEY CERTAINLY CAN

CLINIC IN SANTA FE AND GALLUP OR HERE IN ALBUQUERQUE. >> JOHN: A CASE LIKE LOUISE WHO IS IN RURAL INCOME, A T OR C VET HOME DOWN IN T OR C THAT HAS 110 BEDS BUT THERE ARE 5,000 BEDS AVAILABLE FOR LONG-TERM HEALTHCARE. HOME OR CREATE LONG-TERM WE NEED TO MAKE OUR CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION MORE IS WORKING CLOSELY WITH HEALTH DEPARTMENT ON AGING TO SEE WHAT >> DEANNA: SAM FROM ALBUQUERQUE. >> CALLER: I AM A WORLD WAR II AND KOREAN VETERAN, 100%

DISABLED AND I WENT BECAUSE I HAD A TOOT INFECTION AND I WENT DECEMBER OF '07. >> DEANNA: I HEAR THIS STORY CONSISTENTLY. CENTER, MANY VETS, I HEARD ONE >> Hart: TRANSPLANT, THEN NEVER >> THIS IS -- I REALLY FEEL FOR THIS GENTLEMAN, GOD BLESS HIM HAVE ANY SPECIAL NEEDS, THEY UNFORTUNATELY IN THE CASE OF A GENTLEMAN THAT CAME INTO MY SURGERY, V A SPAS WAS GETTING HIM READY BUT THEY SAID HE HAD A TOOTH THAT HAD TO COME OUT BUT

SIX MONTHS. THE TOOTH. WAY FOR DENTAL HEALTHCARE. >> DEANNA: YOU HAD TALKED ABOUT SOME OF THE FAMILY ISSUES ALSO A LOT OF MENTAL ISSUES THAT MARRIAGE ISSUES. OUT OF SOME OF THE FAMILIES WITH OUR IRAQI VETS RETURNING, WHAT SEEING? >> BLAS: AT AT VET CENTER, WE HAVE A SIGNIFICANT OTHERS GROUP PROGRAM WITH THESE WOMEN HAVE HUSBAND'S POST TRAUMATIC STRESS AFFECTS THEM SO THEY CAN

AND, SO, THEY ARE ADDRESSING ISSUES OF ANGER, DEPRESSION, ISOLATION AND TRYING TO ADDRESS THESE PROBLEMS IN AN OPEN, HERE AND NOW, FASHION. SO, THAT IS A NEW PROGRAM THAT HAS BEEN WORKING REALLY WELL FOR WORK IN COLLABORATION WITH THE VA HOSPITAL AND THE FOLKS WITH DR. SNYDER AND THEIR FAMILY AND, DR. DIANE CASTILLO IN THE PSYCHOLOGY DEPARTMENT, SO WE ARE RESOURCES TO THE FAMILY THAT, OF TREATING PTSD, JUST NOT THE VETERAN AT INDIVIDUAL THAT WE >> DEANNA: HERBERT FROM ALBUQUERQUE. >> CALLER: MY QUESTION IS THIS; I AM A KOREAN VETERAN, BUT MY PENSION HAS BEEN CUT COMPLETELY

OFF. PENSIONS, ONE IS SERVICE >> BLAS: I AM THINKING THAT MAYBE THE PENSION THAT YOU HAD NONSERVICE CONNECTION PENSION, SERVICE CONNECTED DISABILITY WAS PAID. >> JOHN: I WANT TO MAKE HERBERT AWARE, IF THERE ARE HAVE TRAINED STAFF, THERE TO MR. HELWIG DIRECTOR OF FIELD OPERATIONS HERE TAKING SOME >> DEANNA: YOU WERE TELLING US

YOU DIDN'T HAVE ENOUGH PEOPLE TO >> JOHN: YES, I THINK WITH BLAS' OFFICE AND MINE, WHEN WE WAR IN IRAQ, WAR A TERRORISM HADN'T REALLY STARTED. BUT SINCE THEN WE SEE INCREASE AT VETERANS INTERESTED IN WIVES, FAMILY MEMBERS GOING OFF TO IRAQ, I HAD OPPORTUNITY TO OF AND I MET ONE YOUNG MAN AND HIS MOTHER WAS SITTING THERE, I AND TURNED OUT TO BE HIS MOTHER, GRANDFATHER IS VIETNAM VETERAN. I WAS STUNNED SHE SAID HIS GRANDFATHER, I REALIZE I AM THE TO FIND THE SAME ISSUES WE FOUND WHEN WE CAME HOME FROM VIETNAM. IT WAS $30 YEARS AGO.

STILL NEEDS FUNDING. TODAY, WILL HELP US. >> DEANNA: ANOTHER CALLER AND ENCOURAGE SOME OF THE YOUNGER AFGHANISTAN OR SERVED IN IRAQ OR >> KIM FROM ALBUQUERQUE, OR HE, I WASN'T GIVEN A GENDER. >> CALLER: HI, I WOULD LIKE TO GENERAL MED CENTER AT THE VA FOR WOMEN? >> JOHN: IS KIM A VETERAN? >> CALLER: YES, I AM 100% >> BLAS: I THINK THAT THAT WAS AN ISSUE THAT WAS LOOKING AT THE BUDGET WHEN THE VA MEDICAL

CENTER WAS UNDER SOME SEVERE MEANT AS A WAY TO TRY AND MARSHAL THE RESOURCES OF EVER DECREASING POT, SO, I KNOW THAT -- >> JOHN. OR ACTUALLY THE WOMEN'S PROGRAM. >> CALLER: I AM 100% DISABLED WHO HAVE SERVED OUR COUNTRY AND FOR WOMEN. >> BLAS: THAT IS FOR THE WIERJS OF VETERANS. >> DEANNA: THIS SEEMS DISCRIMINATORY. >> BLAS: I THINK THAT IS AN ISSUE THAT IS GOING TO BE VETERANS RETURNING FROM IRAQ, YOU KNOW, DEMANDING THOSE KIND

A VERY DIFFERENT PICTURE NOW THE SERVICE. IRAQI AND AFGHANISTAN SOLDIERS BEING WOMEN, SO, I THINK THAT -- >> DEANNA: I WOULD LIKE TO ASK BEFORE WE LOSE HER, IF YOU COULD OUR PHONE NUMBER, I WOULD LIKE THAT IS CHANGES WHICH IS WE HAD >> 22,000 WOMEN IN THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO ARE VETERANS. >> MS. BARLOW HEAD OF THE WOMEN'S PROGRAM AT THE MEDICAL RESOURCE FOR YOU TO CALL. >> JOHN: I ALSO WANT TO LET KIM KNOW AND OTHERS THAT IN MARCH OF 2006 NEXT YEAR, WE WILL PUT TOGETHER A WOMEN'S CONFERENCE TO DEAL WITH SEXUAL

AMONG WOMEN AND DEAL WITH WOMEN WIERJS OF VETERANS. VET CENTER WILL TEAM WITH US AS WELL AS VA. STATS SHOW WOMEN HAVE HIGHER PERCENTAGE OF PTSD THAN MEN. I WAS TELLING YOU ABOUT THE TRIP TO WALTER REED THERE WERE TWO WOMEN THAT LOST A LIMB IN IRAQ. THAT STUNNED ME HE. I HADN'T EXPECTED TO SEE THAT. WE MUST ADJUST OURSES TO NEEDS OF VETERAN WOMEN. >> WHEN WOMEN COME BACK, THERE >> JOHN: MOTHER, WIFE, HOMEMAKER, IT IS HAVE DIFFICULT AND I SAW WHEN WE SENT NATIONAL GUARDS MEN AND WOMEN OFF TO IRAQ, A SCENE THAT STAYED WITH KISSING THE WIFE GOOD-BYE.

SO, BLAS' OFFICE, VET CENTERS HAVE COUNSELING CENTERS. >> BLAS: OUR MISSION IS TO PROVIDE OUTREACH AND COUNSELING AND I THINK AS THE WOMEN RETURN, LIKE THE MEN, THEY ARE GOING TO HAVE THE -- THEY MAY HAVE STRESS RESPONSE EXPERIENCES WHERE THEY THE ALL AND EVERYTHING THAT THEY >> JOHN: OUR OFFICE HAS THREE VETERAN SERVICE OFFICERS THAT WOMEN WOULD BE GLAD TO WORK WITH >> DEANNA: ED THANKS FOR CALLING. >> CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR NEW JOB. PRIMARY CARE DOCTOR WHO I LIKED AND I DIDN'T GO SEE HER FOR OVER

A YEAR SO THEY TOLD ME I HAD TO GO BACK IN THE POT AND I TRIED SHE RETIRED SO I HAVE BEEN TOLD ROOM AND WHAT IT FIVE HOURS IN 2:00 AM, DOES ANYBODY KNOW IN SHORTCUTS OTHER THAN THAT TO GO TO EMERGENCY ROOM AND WHAT IT TO >> CALL ELIGIBILITY AND CALL ADVICE NURSE AND ASK THEM IF THERE IS A CANCELLATION OR ANOTHER WAY THAT YOU CAN GET AN ALTERNATIVE DATE TO THE ACCOMMODATE YOU TO GET AN PHYSICIAN. >> DEANNA: WE HAVE JUST A INTENSE ISSUES AND IT SEEMS ISSUES IS GETTING SERVICES AND SUPPORT OUR VETERANS, DO TO MAKE

>> JOHN: IT DOES, AS YOU SEE WITH THE TOPICS BEING DISCUSSED, VERY HOT ISSUES. THERE ARE MANY GROUPS OUT THERE. VFW, DAV, ADVOCATING AND FIGHTING FOR VETERANS RIGHTS. MY OFFICE IS NOT FEDERAL AGENCY, BENEFITS TO VETERANS, MY BEFORE CONGRESS AND TESTIFY ON CLOSELY WITH VET CENTERS AND CLOSELY WITH ADMINISTRATION OF VIETNAM VETERANS THEMSELVESES THAT IS BIGGEST ISSUE WE HAVE. >> BLAS: THE OTHER THING WE

NEED TO DO IS MORE OUTREACH. I KNOW THAT WE HAVE VET CENTERS IN SANTA FE AND IN FARMINGTON, CHINLE, AND VA IS ALSO MAKING MORE EFFORT TO REACH INTO THOSE CLINIC ALSO IN SILVER CITY. >> JOHN: TO VALENCIA DATE, 185,000 VETERANS, 31 THOWS ARE RECEIVING SOME FOREMAN OF IS VERY KEY, VERY IMPORTANT. >> 346-6562 IN ALBUQUERQUE AND WE BE GLAD TO RESPOND TO ANY OF TONIGHT. >> JOHN: THANK YOU FOR DOING THIS FOR VETERANS. >> DEANNA: ENCOURAGE VETERANS

TO GET INVOLVED AND YOUR VOICE SERVED THE COUNTRY. THANK EVERYONE FOR CALLING A AND SPECIAL THANK YOU TO VETERANS YOUR CALLS. I AM DEANNA, THANKS FOR WATCHING, GOOD NIGHT.