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This year’s Veterans Health Administration Innovation Experience (iEx)--on October 22-23--showcased the power of partnerships and innovation.This year’s Veterans Health Administration Innovation Experience (iEx)--on October 22-23--showcased the power of partnerships and innovation.

VA and Walmart cut the ribbon in Asheboro, North Carolina, Dec. 10, for a new VA-led Accessing Telehealth through Local Area Stations (ATLAS) services pilot location.

VA recently teamed up with Philips, VFW, and the American Legion to provide equipment for remote telehealth exam rooms. The project, dubbed “Atlas”, will enable Veterans to conduct virtual appointments with VA care teams and specialists.

The role of innovation is to make change real, personal, and accessible to Veterans wherever they live or receive care. It’s also a major goal of the October 22 and 23 VHA Innovation Experience (iEx). Participants will see and experience for themselves how innovation is reaching Veterans and changing their lives.

VHA's Office of Veterans Access to Care (OVAC) met with healthcare experts from Kaiser Permanente, National Quality Forum, New York Health & Hospitals, Press Ganey, Walmart, CVS, Microsoft, and other organizations and academic institutions. The roundtable discussed the need for national ‘access to care’ definitions and standards to be used across the U.S. healthcare industry.  

Veteran mental health is a key part of a pledge two dozen companies signed during a ceremony Nov. 13 at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Washington, D.C.

One of the pressing issues facing Veterans in rural communities is the lack of fast, reliable internet service, or any internet service at all. VA and Microsoft have partnered to improve rural Veterans’ online access to VA services and benefits.

In 1942, Robert Friend was able to enlist in the Army Air Forces and went to Tuskegee Institute for training and joined 322nd Fighter Group.

William Least Heat-Moon’s first book was nearing publication when he was struck by appendicitis. Emergency surgery at the VA medical center in Columbia, Mo., likely saved him and Blue Highways.

Student Veterans of America’s 11th Annual National Conference offers an opportunity to help you stand out and advance in your professional development.

Kerry Haynes, mental health chaplain and Gold Star Fellow at South Texas VA health Care System, created the Chaplain Groups for Veterans with Moral Injury to bring peace of mind and soul to Veterans suffering from a wounding of the conscience, whether from their own involvement or the action of someone in authority over them.

VA’s HOME Program was created to help patients – especially those who live in rural areas – access mental health care after they transition from inpatient psychiatric care and re-enter their community.