Nurse practitioner provides tele-primary care to Native American and rural Veterans in remote areas. “I love being able to impact them.”
The Veterans Health Administration’s Innovation Ecosystem (VHA IE) is the catalyst for enabling the discovery and spread of mission-driven health care innovation to advance care delivery and service that is changing and saving Veteran lives.
Frech launched a telemedicine program at VA in 2011 and learned, for one, that many of her patients had suffered injuries to their fingers due to bitter cold temperatures while serving in Afghanistan. She also received complaints that some patients weren’t getting timely evaluation.
Face of InnoVAtion is a regular series from the VHA [...]
While helping Veterans receive care outside VA increases their access to health care services, it could also lead to coordination problems. Some concern exists that Veterans receiving care from more than one source could result in fragmented care and poor clinical outcomes.
Health care innovators have flocked to the VHA Innovation Ecosystem's iNET Greenhouse, and the first three collaborations are now underway.
Veterans in rural Kalispell, Montana, received COVID-19 vaccines following an airplane delivery from Fort Harrison near Helena into Glacier Park International Airport Feb. 3.
VA’s Nutrition and Food Services has teamed up with MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger to distribute information to Veterans and increase awareness about the risks associated with food insecurity.
Want to work at VA? Serve a unique patient population in state-of-the-art facilities with flexible career paths in a VA urology career.
Dr. Sharon Weinstein, chief of holistic medicine at the Salt Lake City VAMC, offers a 20-minute self-care head and neck massage video that you can use over and over to help you relax and feel the benefits of massage.
In honor of National Parents’ Day, here are eight ways VA helps provide work-life balance and provides the support that parents need.
William E. Christoffersen was a member of the American Legion for 75 years. He will be remembered as a man who fought for his country and his fellow Veterans.











