Santa Rosa - In Wounds of War, award-winning health care journalist and author Suzanne Gordon describe how the VHA-tasked with a challenging patient population- does a better job than private sector institutions offering primary and geriatric care, mental health and home care services, and support for patients nearing the end of life. The VHA, Gordon argues, is an integrated health care system worthy of wider emulation, rather than piecemeal dismantling for the benefit of private contractors. In the unusual culture of solidarity between patients and providers that the VHA has fostered, the author finds a working model for higher quality health care and a much-needed alternative to the practice of for-profit medicine.
Co-Sponsors:
Jobs with Justice, two unions, AFGE and NUHW, the Sonoma County-based Health Professionals for Equality and Community Empowerment (H-PEACE), and Veterans for Peace.