Alaska Deputy Commissioner of VA Out of a Job

ANCHORAGE - Deputy commissioner of Alaska's Department of Military and Veterans Affairs, McHugh Pierre, resigned on Thursday at the request of Gov. Sean Parnell, a Parnell spokeswoman said.

Reminder of some of what was going on in Alaska

Is there a doctor in the house at Wasilla Alaska VA? Nope!
VA clinic in Wasilla without doctors
The Associated Press
September 4, 2014

ANCHORAGE, ALASKA — The Veterans Affairs clinic in Wasilla is without doctors after the three physicians working under contract over the summer decided not to renew those.

A nurse practitioner, who transferred from Anchorage last week, is now carrying the 1,000-patient caseload.

The Mat-Su Veterans Affairs Community Based Outpatient Clinic is supposed to have two full-time doctors but has been down one since 2012. The last full-time doctor left in May, KTVA reported