We provide a full range of mental health services. The big thing that we do now is a more proactive screening. For example, problems within our electronic health records are presented to the providers, who see a veteran depending on where that veteran served, when they served, or the conditions, and they really walk them through a screening for things like post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, and suicidal ideation. They'll be screened for these things so they can be referred for broader treatment. So we have extensive mental health services.
Most recently, there's been a lot of publicity about the whole issue of suicide. So we have set up a national suicide hotline that's connected to the country's suicide hotline, but it's specifically for veterans. They are referred from this national line, and there are screening techniques for the possibility of suicidal ideation.
This is an area where we thought you might possibly need a whole other session, if you will, with our mental health professionals. As you indicated, there have been a lot of studies done by both the Department of Defense and the VA, and we can certainly accumulate those materials for you.
In the past few years, as Ms. Fischetti alluded to, we have had a large research contingent. Plus we've also developed a war-related illnesses centre, which looks not only at physical ailments due to combat-related exposure but also at mental health issues.
But you're exactly right that we are very cognizant of these and make sure that these services are available both to our newer and existing veterans.