Hoeven: Veterans to gain access to hyperbaric oxygen therapy

Senator John Hoeven was in Fargo Friday to announce that the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has added the Fargo VA Health Care System to its hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) clinical demonstration program. This will allow access to HBOT for post-traumatic stress disorder to veterans in North Dakota and Western Minnesota.

The VA in Fargo is partnering with Healing with Hyperbarics, a Fargo-based facility, and is the firth location to be added to the HBOT program, with the other systems in California, Florida, Oklahoma and Texas. 

Hoeven was at a roundtable with officials from the Fargo VA Health Care System, TriWest, Veteran Service Organizations and local veterans.