REPORT OF BVA 60TH NATIONAL CONVENTION BYLAWS AND RESOLUTIONS COMMITTEE

Resolutions 1-05 through 3-05
Resolutions 4-05 through 6-05
Resolutions 7-05 through 10-05
Resolutions 11-05 through 13-05
Resolutions 14-05 through 17-05
Resolutions 18-05 through 21-05
Resolutions 22-05 through 23-05
Resolutions 24-05 through 27-05
Resolutions 28-05 through 29-05
Resolutions 30-05 through 32-05
Resolutions 33-05 through 35-05
Resolutions 36-05 through 38-05
Resolutions 39-05 through 41-05
Resolutions 42-05 through 43-05
Resolutions 44-05 through 45-05

RESOLUTION 42-05

RESOLUTION: SCRIPTALK IMPLEMENTATION NATIONWIDE

WHEREAS, the VA Under- Secretary of Health instructed the VA to implement audible prescription label reading devices and set a implementation schedule and deadline, AND

WHEREAS, there are facilities and some VISNs that have failed to implement and utilize the ScripTalk system, AND

WHEREAS, this lack of implementation and utilization is contrary to the guidance from VA Headquarters and has needlessly placed blinded veterans at unnecessary risk, AND

WHEREAS, JACHO has placed medication safety as a high priority in health care facilities; THEREFORE BE IT 

RESOLVED, that the Blinded Veterans Association in convention assembled in Miami Beach, Florida on the 20^th day of August, 2005, requests the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to investigate and identify roadblocks to implementation of ScripTalk, AND FURTHER BE IT

RESOLVED, that the Under Secretary of Health be requested to take appropriate corrective action to remove road blocks to full implementation so that no blinded veteran remains at risk of unnecessary medication errors due to not being able to read his or her medication label.

RESOLUTION 43-05

PUERTO RICO REGIONAL GROUP
BLINDED VETERANS ASSOCIATION

VA-MC – Room 1D178
10 Casia Street
San Juan, Puerto Rico 00921-3201

WHEREAS, the volume of service-connected claims filed by veterans under Title 38 USC 1151 has increased dramatically, AND

WHEREAS, these veterans have been denied many benefits accorded to other service-connected veterans, AND

WHEREAS, the lack of these benefits has created economic and personal hardship in many of their families, THEREFORE BE IT, 

RESOLVED, that the Blinded Veterans Association assembled in Miami, Florida, on this 20^th day of August, 2005, initiate an investigation concerning this matter and furthermore to submit a bill urging the U.S. Congress to amend this law, AND BE IT FURTHER

RESOLVED, that the following change be made to 38 USC 1151. Benefits for persons disabled by treatment or vocational rehabilitation:

Compensation under this chapter, dependency and indemnity       compensation under chapter 13 of this title, AND ALL  ANCILLARY BENEFITS UNDER THIS TITLE shall be awarded for a qualifying additional disability or a qualifying death of a veteran in the same manner as if such additional disability or death were service-connected. For purposes of this section, a disability or death is a qualifying additional disability or qualifying death if the disability or death was not the result of the veteran’s willful misconduct.

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