Keith Allen, director of the Roseburg VA Health Care
Summary
Keith Allen, director of the Roseburg VA Health Care System, reads a letter of recognition in honor of Registered Nurse Ben Busey at the Roseburg VA Urgent Care, Roseburg, Oregon, May 18, 2020. Busey, the Urgent Care nurse manager here and a native of Scottsville, Kentucky, is a former Air Force captain – after six years in uniform as an Intensive Care Unit trauma nurse, he joined the Roseburg VA four years ago. Busey recently returned from a temporary deployment as part of the Disaster Emergency Medical Personnel System (DEMPS) program, supporting the front-line response to COVID-19 with the Southeast Louisiana Veterans Health Care System in New Orleans. The worldwide pandemic caused by SARS-CoV2, the disease that causes COVID-19, has brought cheers and tributes for health care workers across the globe. Traditional first responders and ordinary citizens – police, firemen, military and many others – line the streets outside medical facilities and atop balconies from New York City to New Delhi to show appreciation for the difficult work front-line providers do each day. (Official RVAHCS Photo by T. T. Parish/Released)