The federal government needs to do more to help the Roseburg Veterans Affairs Medical Center recruit and retain health care professionals, U.S. Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-Springfield, said Friday at a town hall meeting at Umpqua Community College.
U.S. Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-Springfield, called on federal agencies Wednesday to help recruit and retain health care professionals for the Roseburg Veterans Affairs Medical Center.
City planners are reviewing plans for the first multifamily housing project in Roseburg in six years.
A six-week walking group for women veterans will begin at noon Aug. 13 at the Roseburg VA Medical Center Building 2 Women's Lobby, 913 NW Garden Valley Blvd., Roseburg.
The Roseburg Veterans Affairs Medical Center will downgrade its 24/7 emergency department to a 12-hour, five-day-a-week urgent care next week, but that will leave Roseburg area veterans with a gap in service on the weekends.
U.S. Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-Springfield, is pushing back against plans to downgrade the Roseburg Veterans Affairs Medical Center emergency department to a 12-hour urgent care by Aug. 16.
The former interim director of the Roseburg Veterans Affairs Medical Center called fears the state will abandon a proposed Roseburg veterans home misguided.
Local veterans are mounting a letter-writing campaign to push the state to recommit funds toward a proposed veterans home on the Roseburg Veterans Affairs campus.
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The Roseburg Veterans Affairs Medical Center announced this afternoon it will close its 24/7 emergency department and convert it to an urgent care clinic that is open Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Along a brick wall in the radiology department hallway in Roseburg Veterans Affairs Medical Center Building 1, sit the black-and-white portraits of 46 women veterans from the Oregon communities the Roseburg VA serves.
WINSTON — Three days after his 100th birthday party, World War II veteran Roy Vanderhoff drove to Wellspring Bible Fellowship in Roseburg to inspect and repair electronics for the church’s yard sale.
Oregon’s U.S. Sens. Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden this past week urged Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert Wilkie not to repeat past mistakes when it comes to veterans receiving care outside the VA.
An art exhibit featuring women veteran employees of the Roseburg Veterans Affairs Medical Center will hold its grand opening at the end of July.
Veterans and their families can learn more about death benefits available to them at a seminar to be held next week at the Roseburg Veterans Affairs Medical Center.
CANYONVILLE—When Vietnam veteran Lonnie Shields of Winston surveyed the Oregon Memorial Traveling Wall outside Seven Feathers Casino Resort Wednesday, he saw the name of a classmate he’d attended Roseburg High School with in 1965.
The Douglas County Veterans Service Office hopes to reach and serve more veterans thanks to the purchase of a new 2018 Ford Explorer.
New Roseburg Veterans Affairs Medical Center Director Keith Allen held his first town hall in Roseburg Tuesday, and he got an earful from veterans about his proposal to convert the emergency room to an urgent care.
The Roseburg Veterans Affairs Medical Center emergency room may soon be downgraded to an urgent care.
The Roseburg Veterans Affairs Medical Center, along with VAs across the nation, rolled out their new program this month for veterans seeking care from private doctors outside the VA system.
The Roseburg Elks Lodge will conduct a Flag Day ceremony at 1 p.m. Friday in the Roseburg Veterans Affairs Medical Center auditorium, 913 NW Garden Valley Blvd., Roseburg.
Call it worm castings, call it vermicompost, or just call it worm poop.
Twenty local veterans, two who served in World War II and the remainder in the Vietnam War, received handmade Quilts of Valor Thursday at the Roseburg Veterans Affairs Medical Center auditorium.
The VA Mission Act is here, and it could dramatically change the way many veterans receive the medical benefits they’ve earned.
Veterans and anti-war advocates protested the United States going to war with Iran near the Roseburg Veterans Affairs Hospital on Friday.
Thirteen Navy and Air Force veterans who served during World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War were honored Thursday at the Roseburg National Cemetery Annex. It was the last of three days of services for 28 veterans whose remains were forgotten on a shelf for decades at a local mortuary.
The Veterans for Peace 181 will hold a protest against a possible war with Iran from 2 to 4 p.m. Friday in front of Fred Meyer on Garden Valley Boulevard in Roseburg.
A series of three public memorials will be held at the Roseburg National Cemetery Annex next week to honor 28 veterans whose remains were forgotten on the shelf at a local mortuary — some for as many as 44 years.
Two excavators moved the earth at a Southeast Cobb Street lot Tuesday afternoon as a dump truck offloaded more. By summer’s end, two homeless women veterans will live at this address.
Rather than replace Larry Suggs Java Juice Extreme with another contracted coffee shop, Veterans Canteen Service will now offer “We Proudly Serve Starbucks” products, served by canteen service staff members.
ASHLAND — The remains of a World War II soldier from Oregon who went missing in the final weeks of the Guadalcanal campaign have been positively identified 76 years after he was listed as missing in action, according to the U.S. government.
Veterans and their families can learn more about death benefits available to them at a seminar to be held this week at the Roseburg Veterans Affairs Medical Center.
The Seventh Annual Diamond N Vets event is scheduled for Wednesday, June 12, featuring fishing at the Diamond Lake Resort.
Twenty-eight veterans whose remains have waited unclaimed at a Roseburg funeral home, some for as many as 44 years, will be transported Friday morning to the Douglas County Courthouse. They will be stored there until memorial services with full military honors can be held, beginning May 14.
In 2015, John Kilby was thriving as an experienced nurse specializing in caring for mentally ill patients at the Roseburg Veterans Affairs Medical Center.
An investigator from the Office of Accountability and Whistleblower Protection concluded that there was not rampant retaliation against whistle-blowers at the Roseburg Veterans Affairs Medical Center.
April showers are here, but summer is coming, and with it many opportunities for local youth to work, play and volunteer. In fact, one of the best youth events is held during the summer: Boys and Girls State Leadership Academy.
