VA Clinic Staffing Struggles to Keep Pace

There's good news and bad news about Department of Veterans Affairs walk-in clinics, USA Today reports. The good news is that staffing at such centers has increased from 992 to 1,063 since 2004. The bad news is that the number of veterans visiting the centers has gone up from 8,965 to 21,681 over the same period. VA officials say they've got funding to open 23 new centers by Sept. 2008.