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''Veterans Helping Veterans'' VA Hospital Survey Gaining Steam; Veterans Get a Chance to Rate VA System.


BOSTON Boston, town, England
Boston, town (1991 pop. 26,495), E central England, on the Witham River. Boston's fame as a port dates from the 13th cent., when it was a Hanseatic port trading wool and wine. Having recovered from a decline in the 18th and 19th cent.
 -- Veterans advocacy group "Veterans Helping Veterans" is a nationally recognized veterans group established to help fellow veterans obtain VA benefits. Veterans Helping Veterans handles all types of disability claims. Veterans Helping Veterans is conducting a nationwide Veterans Administration satisfaction survey on their website http://www.netbo.org See .org.

(networking) org - The top-level domain for organisations or individuals that don't fit any other top-level domain (national, com, edu, or gov). Though many have .org domains, it was never intended to be limited to non-profit organisations.

RFC 1591.
 that asks veterans ten simple questions pertaining per·tain  
intr.v. per·tained, per·tain·ing, per·tains
1. To have reference; relate: evidence that pertains to the accident.

2.
 to the delivery of services from the nationwide Veterans Administration Medical System. The VA survey has recently been featured on http://www.military.com Military.com is the website created by the U.S. company Military Advantage to be a portal for U.S. military members.[1] In early 2004, Military Advantage was purchased by Monster Worldwide (monster.com)[2].  as well as other major veteran publications.

"The survey will be conducted from now through May, 2006," said Ken Smith, director. We are attempting to capture responses from veterans of all branches of the military and all service eras including veterans returning from Iraq Iraq or Irak (both: ēräk`, ĭrăk`), officially Republic of Iraq, republic (2005 est. pop. 26,075,000), 167,924 sq mi (434,924 sq km), SW Asia.  and Afghanistan to allow for a comprehensive accounting of the current services delivered by the Veterans Administration. Veterans from around the country are encouraged to voice their opinions.

Areas of the veteran survey feature:

--Timely manner of appointments

--Confidence in the skill level of doctors and nurses

--Transportation to and from appointments

--Comprehensive treatment plans

--Amount of paperwork and

--Overall satisfaction of continuum Continuum (pl. -tinua or -tinuums) can refer to:
  • Continuum (theory), anything that goes through a gradual transition from one condition, to a different condition, without any abrupt changes or "discontinuities"
 of care

Veterans Helping Veterans will release its findings, May 15th, 2006, two weeks before Memorial Day, to allow time for the Veterans Administration to respond to the results. Nationally, veterans are spreading the word via the Internet Internet

Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the
 to come to the new website http://www.netbo.org to have their voices counted.

http://www.netbo.org strives to provide a simple system of veteran advocacy with its model of one veteran helping another veteran. Each veterans survey will be tabulated and a comprehensive report will be made available to the media on May 15th, 2006.
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