CHAPTER RECEIVES TWO NATIONAL AWARDS At this
year's Clambake
on August 2, 2003, the New Hampshire Chapter was presented with a
"Battle
Streamer" for being selected as a 5 Star Chapter (top of the heap) for
2002, in the "Large" Category (900 or more members). (Our Chapter tied
with the Ark-La-Tex (LA) Chapter.) The Chapter also received a
certificate
for recruiting "excellence" for 2002. The presentations from MOAA
national
were made by RADM Ed Nelson, USCG (Ret.), national director of MOAA.
![]() LCDR Paul Bernard, USN (Ret.), Chapter President and RADM Ed Nelson, USCG (Ret.), MOAA national director |
VA to Fill Outside Prescriptions Reprinted form MOAA’s website A July
24, 2003, announcement by Department of Veterans
Affairs (VA) Secretary Anthony Principi will allow certain veterans to
get their outside or private physician prescriptions filled by a VA
pharmacy.
A VA appointment is not necessary, but the VA emphasized that it urges
these veterans to follow up with a scheduled appointment.
To be eligible for the new
benefit, veterans must have:
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• requested their first primary
care appointment with the VA by July
25, 2003; and
• been waiting more than 30 days for their first appointment with a primary care physician as of Sept. 22, 2003. The first prescriptions will be filled under the new program Sept. 22, 2003. Eligible veterans will be unable to get prescriptions filled before that date. The period between announcement of the program (July 25) and filling the first prescriptions (Sept. 22) is necessary to allow the VA to identify and contact eligible veterans and to put new systems and procedures in place to deliver this benefit. |
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