New Tulsa hospital will expand services in Tulsa metro area and northeast Oklahoma. About 72% of area Veterans live in the Tulsa metro area.
A 2021 Summer Tribal Women Virtual Veteran series focused on indigenous women Veterans, domestic violence issues and a discussion on “Marrying military and traditional culture.”
A “Bringing Benefits Home” event held in Lawton, OK, helped Tribal Veterans learn about disability claims and speak to a VA claims expert.
Oklahoma City VA Health Care System has been selected to receive a Fisher House. This will be the first Fisher House in the state of Oklahoma. “A home away from home” for families of Veteran patients.
With a combination of police training and military experience, these officers show that service to others doesn’t end when the uniform comes off.
Although Vet Centers offer unlimited counseling appointments, U.S. Army Veteran Sandra Hardy had it set in her mind she would only need a couple of visits. Three years later, she's still going.
Harvey Pratt served in the Marine Corps during the Vietnam War. He later designed the National Native American Veterans Memorial on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.
Lorry Luscri is one of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Veteran Care Coordinators at each VA medical center. She has a very straightforward message for Veterans with LGBT and related identities. “You do not have to be afraid to come to the VA for care,” she said. “You are and have always been welcome here and should take advantage of all the great services available through the VA for all Veterans.”
Air Force Veteran Susan Hiler struggles with arthritis but she doesn’t let her disabilities get in her way of enjoying life. She achieves that with a new recumbent therapeutic tricycle.
Read how three Veterans … and dozens more … benefit from the Compensated Work Therapy program at the Oklahoma City VA Health Care System. Back in the work force while concentrating on their health care.
Today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Coast Guard Veteran John Ibach who served in various locations in the Pacific during World War II.
If you want to live somewhere with a strong sense of history, consider a career at the Jack C. Montgomery VA Medical Center in Muskogee, Oklahoma, one of the many rural VA locations around the country.