Rockford Veteran Affairs CBET Case Study

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Beyond disbelief, the mental computer-generated program of VRET has become one of the latest technological advances in treating military service members and Veterans with PTSD. During the course of discussing of whether or not the mental computer-generated program is worth implementing its services for patients at the Rockford Veteran Affairs CBOC becomes a fundamental necessity. Greatly, a fundamental necessity not based on how much revenue the Rockford Veteran Affairs CBOC could possibly generated if implementing the VRET system. Preferably, a fundamental necessity based on how the community based outpatient clinic continues to provide quality and effective treatments of the latest advancements, technologies, and treatments to find solutions to answer military service member’s and Veterans’ complex and unique challenges that lies ahead.

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