VA, DoD and DHS will work together to ensure that the 60 percent of new Veterans who currently do not qualify for enrollment in health care will receive treatment and access to services for mental health care for one year following their separation from service.
Mindfulness is the state of moment-to-moment awareness of one's experience without judgment. It is human nature to sometimes live on autopilot. We have tendencies to rehearse the future — what will I do next? Or rehash the past — I shouldn’t have done that.
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) — first used in the 1930s to treat decompression sickness in deep sea divers — is now being offered through VA to a small number of Veterans diagnosed with PTSD. It’s the latest effort from VA’s Center for Compassionate Innovation (CCI) to promote promising treatments for chronic health conditions that may resist traditional therapy.
VA and SAMHSA announced the inaugural Mayor’s Challenge to prevent suicide among service members, Veterans and their families.
Boulder Crest Retreat focuses on physical, emotional, spiritual, and economic health ensuring Veterans have the opportunity to live lives of purpose.
For many of our Veterans arriving at our residential rehabilitation treatment programs, it is the hope in overcoming old scars, using new tools to make positive changes, and looking to the future that makes them successful.
A joint study by VA and Boston University School of Medicine has found that women Veterans with depression had a 60 percent greater chance of having coronary artery disease than those without depression.
Less than eight hours after the shooting ended, an initial multidisciplinary team led by South Texas VA Chief of Staff Dr. Julianne Flynn and made up of Chief of Chaplain Juliana Lesher, Social Worker Ute Hall and Nurse Rose West were on the road.
Narrated by actor and filmmaker Tom Hanks, the announcement calls on the public to take notice and action by reaching out to a Veteran who may be in crisis.
If we all use our voices and open up the conversation about mental health, we can make it easier for others to reach out for support if and when they need it.
The building was designed around best practices and an environment best suitable for healing.
On Oct. 25, VA co-hosted a Twitter chat on the process of grieving and healing after the loss of a loved one to suicide.