Alaska VA launches pilot program to schedule appointments

The Alaska Veterans Affairs Healthcare System has launched a pilot program to revert the process of scheduling appointments to how it was before reforms.
The Alaska Dispatch News reports that Alaska veterans will no longer have to call a third-party company to schedule appointments, as they did with the nationwide Choice Program. Instead, they will speak directly to Alaska VA staff.
The change comes after a Senate committee field hearing in Eagle River in August. At the meeting, veterans were hi