Victoria Backus spreads the word about the important roll of VA apps to other Veterans. “I’m a Veteran too.”
Northport VA Medical Center implemented telehealth protocols to ensure COVID-19 patients are discharged with home monitoring equipment.
He was referred for grief counseling and mindfulness. “I’d never heard the word before. But I’ve embraced it and made it a guiding force in my life.”
Northport VA surgeons launch state-of-the-art robotic surgical system with urological procedure on Veteran’s prostate. Some patients home the same day.
Northport VA staff has a team approach that includes medical providers and staff who use the CLC hallways for Veteran’s fitness programs.
Center of Balance at Northport VA is a specialty clinic providing evaluation of Veterans with complaints of vertigo and dizziness.
Gerofit can include individual and group-based exercises such as balance and strengthening classes. Program may include treadmills, bicycles, elliptical machines, and stair climbers.
VA connected Papa Don to a food bank that partners with VA to provide nutritious food for Veterans with food insecurity.
For many Veterans, music can be a powerful form of therapy. Music therapy is the process of using songs and instruments to help achieve therapeutic goals in a clinical setting. Here’s Peter’s story.
VA’s Recreation Therapy Service helps Veterans deal with challenges. Here are some creative examples of how it works for these Veterans.
Today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Air Force and Army Veteran Kyle St. John, who served in Afghanistan, Kuwait and Iraq and is now a VA police officer.
The VICTORS outpatient program represents a unique team approach to vision rehabilitation using the disciplines of optometry, ophthalmology, social work, psychology and low vision therapists.