VA Housing App Snag

I called the VA Home Yountville to follow up on the application that they received on April 19th and heard back from Dick Sutton, my contact.

Dick said that he was looking at Bill's app right then and there, and that it is not currently complete.

What VA Yountville still needs are:

1) Last 12 months of Bill's medical records
2) Date of Bill's last physician's exam.

I also asked Dick to correct the item in Part: to check the YES box on page 2 indicating that Bill had indeed previously applied for VA benefits. Dick made the correction while we spoke. (The NO box had been checked in error.)

To get moving on this,  I called the SB VA Clinic and asked an administrative assistant named Lian Farnam, who works with Nurse Tina Hauck, to help me get Bill's health records sent to Yountville.

Lian said that the SB VA Clinic could not provide the health records, that they'd have to be requested from the VA facility of Greater L.A., the central office. So, I was instructed to fax Bill's medical records release authorization form (which luckily I had, from the application) to the VA Clinic, SB. SB would then contact L.A. to request the records.

I faxed this request today with instructions that the VA Los Angeles send the 12 months of Bill's records directly to VA Home Yountville. God willing, the request will be fulfilled in the next few weeks, and I'll be notified when the records are received.