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Since the advent of diagnosis-related groups (DRGs) under Medicare, health care has become increasingly regulated. Competition for health care dollars drives the focus on throughput. Health care organizations have flattened their structures, collapsing social work departments into care coordination departments. Departments have been decentralized and later merged with Utilization Review Nurses, and then Nurse Case …

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Recently, while working with a woman diagnosed with advanced lung cancer, I realized that sometimes a network is the best resource. Deb came to my clinic to consult with a medical oncologist with whom I work. And brought her cat!

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) mission is to fulfill President Lincoln’s promise—“To care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan”—by serving and honoring the men and women who are America’s Veterans.