The Westmoreland Place Charleston. This is the second year in a row that the school has checked in with zero percent average. Howard attributes the low rate to the employability of graduating physicians as well as student loan counseling programs that teach students the repercussions of defaulting on loans. The national default rate average is 6.9 percent for 1998. The overall average of West Virginia colleges is 8 percent.
American citizens have standards and expectations for their primary care physicians.
While the AOA believes healthcare access for veterans in underserved areas should be increased, it believes the proposals under consideration today should terminate because they eliminate steps crucial to the physician-patient relationship and jeopardize patient Health. Today, the House Veterans' Affairs Committee reviews draft language to implement the Veterans Health Administration Chiropractic Policy Directive of May 5, 2000. Direct access, without referral requirements, to chiropractic doctors at all medical facilities of the Department of Veterans Affairs. Direct access to chiropractic therapy, without the input of osteopathic or allopathic physicians, eliminates the important physician-patient process of medical history review, condition evaluation, and treatment plan. Full scope of practice of chiropractic health services, to include as an absolute minimum, care for neuromculoskeletal conditions typical of those affecting all age groups within the eligible veteran's populations serviced by the Department of Veterans Affairs.