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  • North Texas VA fair educates patients and employees on women’s health care

    North Texas VA fair educates patients and employees on women’s health care

    Women Veterans’ health fair and engagement session were held to get feedback and ideas and integrate them into programs and services.

  • VA social workers: More than advocates for Veterans

    VA social workers: More than advocates for Veterans

    Social workers are important to VA health care, providing support to and advocacy for Veterans and their families.

  • Pittsburgh VCP partners with Advocate Health Advisors to support Veterans

    Pittsburgh VCP partners with Advocate Health Advisors to support Veterans

    Pittsburgh VA and Advocate Health Advisors helped the family of an elderly Veteran artist provide care and comfort in his final days.

  • New VA outpatient clinic opens in Tulsa

    New VA outpatient clinic opens in Tulsa

    The new outpatient clinic in Tulsa has opened its doors for Veterans in Eastern Oklahoma. The new clinic will serve 36,000 Veterans.

  • VA partner American Kidney Fund helps Veteran advocate

    VA partner American Kidney Fund helps Veteran advocate

    A Veteran Navy hospital corpsman and her husband both had kidney failure. She describes the “earth shattering” experience and how a VA partnership with the American Kidney Fund has helped them cope.

  • Veteran inspired by his VA patient experience now leads volunteer program at Detroit VA

    Veteran inspired by his VA patient experience now leads volunteer program at Detroit VA

    Veteran and VA Voluntary Chief Bill Browning discusses the motivation behind the successful volunteer program he oversees in Detroit, "My time spent in the military was rewarding, I never thought I'd come back to VA, but the care I received there was such a motivation and it really changed my life, saved my life."

  • As VA Intermediate Care Technician, Navy Veteran Anthony Juarez is serving other Veterans while delivering direct patient care again

    As VA Intermediate Care Technician, Navy Veteran Anthony Juarez is serving other Veterans while delivering direct patient care again

    Anthony Juarez is an Intermediate Care Technician (ICT) with the [...]

  • Watch with us! VA Patient Experience Symposium

    Watch with us! VA Patient Experience Symposium

    The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is hosting more than 400 health care leaders at a landmark Veteran Patient Experience Symposium to improve customer service.

  • VA researcher is strong advocate for combining therapies for chronic pain

    VA researcher is strong advocate for combining therapies for chronic pain

    Dr. Matthew Bair is a general internal medicine physician and VA health services researcher. His main research interest is pain management in primary care. Over the last 15 years, Bair has been part of a team that has worked to improve pain management for Veterans, particularly through combining pharmacologic (drug) and non-pharmacologic treatments.

  • New Rocky Mountain Regional Veterans Affairs Medical Center to accept outpatients beginning July 27

    New Rocky Mountain Regional Veterans Affairs Medical Center to accept outpatients beginning July 27

    The Rocky Mountain Regional Veterans Affairs Medical Center located in Aurora, replaces the original hospital in Denver which was built more than 60 years ago.

  • Southern Advocate in service to Veterans

    Southern Advocate in service to Veterans

    In this series, we would like you to meet just a few of VA’s Patient Advocates – like Marilynn Jones (above) – and to read about why they love their job and some of the good things they do for Veterans.

  • VA’s national salute to Veteran patients

    VA’s national salute to Veteran patients

    Concerts, Valentines, and a lot of Americans saying Thank You…all part of VA’s National Salute to Veteran Patients. Along with a chance for you to learn how you can volunteer to help our heroes.

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Last updated March 28, 2022

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