Partnership between VA and Elizabeth Dole Foundation offers 40,000 hours of free home health care to more than 1,600 Veteran caregiver families.
VA Health care workers are managing stressful situations and are exposed to the unknown course of the pandemic. The Hampton VA medical center has implemented a Stress Management Response Team (SMaRT).
To provide relief to Veterans experiencing financial difficulties with VA debts, VA is suspending collection actions or extending terms of current repayment agreements, on pre-existing VA debts.
Ashley Henson and Shelia McCraney, skilled respiratory therapists with the Kansas City VA medical center, deployed to Chicago to care for COVID positive Veterans. They spent their two weeks on the night shift.
VA Chaplaincy challenged to be innovative and creative in the manner of providing spiritual care. VA’s chaplains have turned to various communications platforms to connect with the people they serve.
VA is taking action to ensure that all Veterans, including older Veterans, are protected from COVID-19 and receive high-quality testing and care, no matter who they are or where they get their care.
In July, Houston VA became the first VA facility to participate in an international trial evaluating the therapeutic benefit of a drug as a treatment for Veterans with COVID-19 severe pneumonia.
Veterans Robert Taney and Robert Tomlinson were able to get their chemotherapy treatments safely throughout the pandemic due to the professionalism and dedication of the staff at Lebanon VAMC.
Veterans are increasingly using VA technologies like My HealtheVet, VA’s online health portal, and VA Video Connect, VA’s video visit application. Telehealth visits have increased by 1,132 percent.
A first-of-its-kind strategic partnership has resulted in massive shipments of personal protective equipment (PPE) to VA health care facilities, helping to continue to protect our Veterans and staff.
VA this month announced its commitment to extend debt relief to Veterans adversely impacted by COVID-19 to the end of 2020 by suspending certain debt collection actions.
As a Veteran was being treated for COVID-19, his wife was in another hospital, also fighting the virus. She did not survive but two VA social workers made it possible for them to say a virtual goodbye.