MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — The White River Junction VA Medical Center has hired about 40 people over the last several months to help improve care at the main facility and at five community clinics in Vermont and two in New Hampshire.

The money to make those hires came from a federal appropriation passed by Congress in the aftermath of revelations that many veterans in other parts of the country waited months before getting services they needed.

The Vermont VA system, which covers all of Vermont and four counties of New Hampshire, didn't have the problems seen by veterans' hospitals elsewhere. Now, the Vermont VA is using the extra money to improve the services they do offer.

"I think for the most part the VA is doing a really good job in Vermont," said Brenda Cruickshank, the commander of the Vermont chapter of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. "With any facility there are going to be issues, civilian or federal. But I think for the most part here they try extremely hard to accommodate the needs of the veterans."

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