"They did everything that they could have possibly done."
"I think it's very important because, you may well have different typologies and different pathologies in rural areas than you have in urban areas."
"One high on the list was financial insecurity, another was food insecurity."
"If you learned of a disease that affected one out of four elderly veterans, an epidemic that caused significant harm, hospitalization costs, and often death, would you consider that worthy of research..."
"I hope you'll rethink where these clinical trials take place, because if you're not doing them in rural areas, you may be missing some important information that could be informative because that's wh..."
"And my concern is that A, we don't know enough about it. And B, once we learn more that we learn how to prevent falls, it's a preventable epidemic, at least to some extent."
"The differential in pay between different areas of the country, I think, is obsolete because people can work anywhere."
"We have to really think hard about all the steps, and here is one of them."
"I believe that the whole idea of differential pay in different regions, based on cost of living, is somewhat obsolete."
"Ultimately this is all about service to veterans."
"We are turning away and losing veterans because of lack of staff. It is an enormous problem."