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    Transform your relationship with food through mindful eating.

  • VA Deputy Secretary recaps EHRM update during Michigan Milestone Week

    VA Deputy Secretary recaps EHRM update during Michigan Milestone Week

    Deputy Secretary Paul Lawrence, Ph.D., joined Rick Ivnik, EHRM strategic planner, on the April 15 edition of the Federal Electronic Health Record (EHR) Update to discuss the April 11 deployment of the Federal EHR at Ann Arbor, Battle Creek, Detroit, and Saginaw, Mich.

  • Live Whole Health 314 – Moving in Community: World Tai Chi and Qigong Day

    Live Whole Health 314 – Moving in Community: World Tai Chi and Qigong Day

    Celebrate World Tai Chi and Qigong Day by moving together in community! These gentle practices support Whole Health through mindful movement.

  • Telehealth connects Veteran to more than just care

    Telehealth connects Veteran to more than just care

    Telehealth is physically distant but still fosters personal connections, as Ronald discovered with remote group therapy, yoga and blood pressure monitoring.

  • Celebrating National Volunteer Week and the 80th anniversary of CDCE

    Celebrating National Volunteer Week and the 80th anniversary of CDCE

    Thank a volunteer during National Volunteer Week! VA Volunteers and donors are honored for their service during this annual recognition.

  • Kansas City VAMC clinicians embrace ambient scribe technology

    Kansas City VAMC clinicians embrace ambient scribe technology

    For providers at the Kansas City VA Medical Center, using ambient scribe for a 90-day evaluation reduced administrative time and improved patient visits.

  • VA Pittsburgh chaplains provide holistic support for Veterans

    VA Pittsburgh chaplains provide holistic support for Veterans

    VAPHS chaplains provide compassionate holistic support, offering hope, comfort and spiritual care to Veterans and staff through every life stage.

  • Eastern Oklahoma VA takes health care to homeless Veterans

    Eastern Oklahoma VA takes health care to homeless Veterans

    Eastern Oklahoma VA uses its mobile medical unit and homeless care team to deliver health care to Veterans experiencing homelessness in Tulsa and connect them with housing support.

  • “I never let breast cancer disable me.”

    “I never let breast cancer disable me.”

    Veteran Heather Elliott was diagnosed with breast cancer at 31 years old and shares how advocacy, early detection, and VA support shaped her path forward.

  • Vietnam Veteran finds new hope through VA support and cancer research

    Vietnam Veteran finds new hope through VA support and cancer research

    Vietnam Veteran has treatment, community care and clinical trials managed by VA’s Cancer Clinical Research Service

  • Live Whole Health #313: When the body softens, the mind is at peace

    Live Whole Health #313: When the body softens, the mind is at peace

    The body has a way of bracing us for stress, often when we don’t need it. Soft belly breathing signals to the brain and the body that all is well and we can relax.

  • Montana Veteran’s art wins first place, earns national invite

    Montana Veteran’s art wins first place, earns national invite

    Veteran Earl Fred won first place at the Montana VA creative arts competition, with an invitation to the National Veterans Creative Arts Festival.

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