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  • Help Veterans breathe easy as a VA pulmonologist

    Help Veterans breathe easy as a VA pulmonologist

    Pulmonologists play a critical role in helping patients breathe easier, and VA has a growing need for respiratory care.

  • Rural community profile: Revisiting Big Spring, Texas

    Rural community profile: Revisiting Big Spring, Texas

    One rural community supporting the well-being of Veterans is Big Spring, Texas (TX), a picturesque small city nestled between two foothills of the Caprock Escarpment. Read on to learn more about Big Spring and the George H. O’Brien, Jr. VA Medical Center (VAMC).

  • A new era of healing: Welcoming West Texas VA’s first facility service dog

    A new era of healing: Welcoming West Texas VA’s first facility service dog

    Loretta, West Texas VA's first facility service dog, brings joy, comfort and healing to Veterans, enhancing compassionate care.

  • Protecting Veterans: VA’s commitment during flu season

    Protecting Veterans: VA’s commitment during flu season

    VA remains committed to protecting Veterans with flu vaccines and easy access options during peak flu season.

  • Home Telehealth Program bridges the distance

    Home Telehealth Program bridges the distance

    The Home Telehealth Program at WTVAHCS brings care home—empowering Veterans with daily monitoring, real-time support, and fewer hospital visits.

  • VA flu vaccination clinics help Veterans stay healthy this season

    VA flu vaccination clinics help Veterans stay healthy this season

    Protecting Veterans against the flu: VA ramps up vaccination efforts with flu shot clinics and convenient walk-in options to ensure Veterans' health this season.

  • Maximize your VA clinic visit with My HealtheVet

    Maximize your VA clinic visit with My HealtheVet

    Essential tips to help Veterand maximize health care appointments at their local VA clinics with the help of My HealtheVet.

  • Mobile Vet Centers on the scene in Texas

    Mobile Vet Centers on the scene in Texas

    The Austin Vet Center, San Antonio Northwest Vet Center and South Texas Veterans Health Care System recently combined efforts to assist with disaster relief support for those affected by July flooding in the Texas Hill Country.

  • VA Community Living Center helps Veteran walk again

    VA Community Living Center helps Veteran walk again

    When heart surgery resulted in a life-threatening infection, the team at the West Texas VA Community Living Center (CLC) 77-year-old Veteran Milton McDonald back on his feet.

  • Fifty years of helping people at VA

    Fifty years of helping people at VA

    Glendoria Chatman-Scott has been helping people for 50 years at VA.

  • Big Spring VA recognized for provider satisfaction improvement

    Big Spring VA recognized for provider satisfaction improvement

    One strategy credited for the improvement is a focus on building trust and stronger patient-provider relationships.

  • VA optometrist for 25 years

    VA optometrist for 25 years

    Optometrist Dr. John Marshall has been eyewitness to major changes in VA optometric service.

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Last updated May 14, 2026

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