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Birmingham VA Offers Vaccines To Eligible Veterans of All Ages

The agency announced the change on Wednesday.

Birmingham’s VA Faces Challenges Keeping Wait Times Down

Wait times have been shrinking at the Birmingham VA after zooming up last year, but challenges with space and hiring still remain.

Kyle Whitmire: VA Healthcare and Alabama’s Prisons

On Tuesday Governor Robert Bentley announced a plan to overhaul the state's severely overcrowded prison system. Also this week, the Southern Poverty Law Center released a detailed report highlighting medical care problems in Alabama's prisons. Plus, we take a look at wait times for Alabama veterans to receive medical attention. Kyle Whitmire of AL.com and the Birmingham News joins us.