31.   Now that the federal government has been shut down, essential services like veterans hospitals have been kept operating as usual.

32.   On Medicaid then, Berghandler switched to the veterans hospital here.

33.   Patients at the Omaha, Neb., veterans hospital had similarly long waits to see cardiologists and primary care doctors.

34.   Proposals to trim services at veterans hospitals in Leavenworth and Topeka in Kansas are on hold for now, the secretary of Veterans Affairs said Tuesday in Leavenworth.

35.   Rep. Cliff Stearns has urged hearings on reports of unusual deaths at veterans hospitals across the country.

36.   Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., visited a veterans hospital in Philadelphia on Friday with Anthony J. Principi, the secretary of veterans affairs.

37.   Sparks, her legs paralyzed, broods in a veterans hospital.

38.   Steve Adams said family members assumed a recent visit by Adams to a veterans hospital prompted doctors to review his wartime medical records.

39.   The doctor kept working at the veterans hospital, but was told to reimburse the VA.

40.   The following year, Cammermeyer moved back to Seattle, bought a three- bedroom bungalow and began work in a veterans hospital in Tacoma.