News Releases

This year’s budget request includes 82 legislative proposals that will help enable the department to better serve Veterans.

VA is hosting its second annual Brain Trust: Pathways to InnoVAtion summit, which kicked off today at Harvard University.

At the end of that review, the VA intends to provide clarity on enrollment criteria for the program and to seek authorization to use the program’s existing resources for those who need them most.

VA, VFW and Walgreens will work together to reach Veterans in communities across the country with targeted initiatives to address mental health awareness and treatment, Veteran suicide prevention and opioid overdose education.

Nearly 800 Veterans of age 55 and older will join volunteers and rehabilitative professionals from across the country for the 31st National Veterans Golden Age Games, scheduled May 7-11 in Biloxi, Mississippi.

The Use Your Voice program is designed to let Veterans, and all Americans, know that reaching out for mental health information and support is just as important as talking to one’s doctor about diet, blood pressure, joint pain and other health challenges.

The effort will leverage the latest DOE expertise and technologies in big data, artificial intelligence and high-performance computing to identify trends that will support the development of new treatments and preventive strategies.

The order focuses on improving “accountability and whistleblower protection” at VA by creating an office dedicated to assist the secretary in using all available authorities to discipline or terminate any VA manager or employee who has violated the public’s trust and failed to carry out his or her duties on behalf of Veterans.

A career researcher with the Providence VA Medical Center in Rhode Island, has been awarded for her work with Veterans who have experienced upper-limb loss.

This new “paper-extraction” process ensures that when a claim is filed, the Veteran’s electronic record is already available in VA’s computer systems, reducing processing time for benefit claims from Veterans and their survivors.

This project will lay the groundwork for future public private partnerships aimed at providing Veterans access to state-of-the-art facilities and will significantly improve the quality of care we are able to provide to our nation’s Veterans.”

VA has announced a new initiative between that will expand access to high quality and convenient health care services for Veterans in Phoenix and surrounding communities.