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VA Maryland Health Care System Makes 10 Best places to Work in Baltimore List

Earlier this year the Baltimore Business Journal reported that the VA Maryland Health Care System was officially named as one of the 10 Best Places to Work in Baltimore for an organization with 500 or more employees.

The VA Maryland Health Care System competed with over 170 other businesses, health care systems, universities and financial institutions throughout the state for this prestigious honor. Additionally, the health care system has the unique distinction of being the only Federal agency in Maryland to be named as one of the 10 Best Places to Work in Baltimore for 2006.

The ten finalists for the Best Places to Work competition were selected based on employee responses to an online survey that was conducted by the Baltimore Business Journal for a three-week period. To be eligible to participate in the competition, the health care system needed a minimum of 375 employees to participate in the online survey. Employees enthusiastically embraced the competitive spirit as a part of the Best Places to Work competition with over 1,700 employees (out of 2,500 employees) completing the online survey.

The VA Maryland Health Care System joins the ranks of Johns Hopkins Health Care System, Johns Hopkins University, LifeBridge Health, MedStar Health, Mercy Medical Center, AAI Corporation, PHH Arval, Enterprise Rent-A-Car and Towson University as a part of the
10 Best Places to Work in Baltimore in the Best Large Business Category.

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Effective January 1, 2006, co-payments for outpatient medicines prescribed through VA medical facilities were increased by $1 for a 30-day supply of prescription drugs. This is the first change in VA prescription co-payments in four years. The increase to $8 from $7 for a 30-day supply of prescription drugs is required by federal law, which bases VA’s co-payments for outpatient prescriptions on increases in the Medical Consumer Price Index. The $1 increase will not affect veterans who have an injury or illness connected with their military service resulting in a 50 percent or greater disability. Also known as “Priority Group 1” veterans, these patients will see no change in their current prescription drug benefit. For more information about your priority group, please contact the Enrollment Center for the VA Maryland Health Care System at 1-800-463-6294, extension 7324.

 

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