Guest Posts

Network Director for VISN 17 VA Heart of Texas Health Care Network

As a VA patient and leader, I did not truly understand the importance of the delivery of care until I myself became a patient. Today, my goal is to provide high quality care to our nation’s Veterans.

VA Under Secretary for Memorial Affairs

The VA made both history and progress for Veterans recently with the award of the first-ever grant to a tribal organization to establish a Veterans cemetery on tribal lands.

My HealtheVet Coordinator

Air Force Veteran Stanley Mitchell received unsettling news: his pacemaker battery to the chamber of his heart was no longer functioning properly. Fortunately for Mr. Mitchell he is a patient of the Charles George VA Medical Center in Asheville, NC and had another option – Laser Lead Extraction.

U.S. Army Veteran

With a half empty bottle of cheap wine in one hand (my third of the evening) and a DVD remote in the other, I sat on the sofa—eyes glazed over—numb. Somewhere in that drunken fog the night before I promised myself I was done drinking and I intended to keep that promise.

Insurance Specialist at the Philadelphia VA Regional Office

On October 1, 2011, the Servicemembers’ Group Life Insurance Traumatic Injury Protection Program (TSGLI) underwent a few changes. Now, those injured between October 7, 2001 and November 30, 2005, stateside can receive benefits.

Acting Principal Deputy Under Secretary for Memorial Affairs and Chief Financial Officer of the National Cemetery Administration

Raleigh National Cemetery in North Carolina was established in 1871 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997. This cemetery is a place of honor and memory designed to evoke a sense of serenity, historic sacrifice and nobility of purpose.

Dietitian at the Milwaukee VAMC

The Patient Aligned Care Team is sweeping the nation with innovative practice redesign, increased access to care, improvements in care management and superior care coordination for in all Veteran’s Affairs Medical Centers.

Chief Consultant of Rehabilitation Services and the Director of the Audiology and Speech Pathology Program

Polytrauma used to describe the complex, combat-related injuries sustained in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, has shaped the way VA now cares for wounded service members.

U.S. Army Veteran

Today, government agencies are joining in the efforts to provide resources to the more than two million members of the Armed Forces who have deployed across the globe, the millions of Veterans from other eras, their families, and their caregivers.

Acting Director of the VA Home Loan program

In these unstable economic times, it is worth reviewing some of the protections afforded to Veterans and Servicemembers with monthly housing payments.

U.S. Air Force Veteran and VA employee

It’s called the CWT program, which stands for “Compensated Work Therapy,” and it helped change my life.

Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration at U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Many Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans received training as health care providers while they served in their deployments. The President is committed to helping these Veterans translate the health care skills gained during their enlistment into nursing jobs when they return home.