More than 120 health care providers from the VA New England Healthcare System have deployed to join clinical staff in New York (Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan), New Jersey and the greater Boston area.
Social workers at VA are a vital part of the team, pulling together treatment plans and providing comprehensive, personalized care to Veterans.
VA diagnoses 7,700 Veterans with lung cancer each year and an estimated 900,000 remain at risk due to age, smoking and other environmental exposures during and after military service.
This is Compensated Work Therapy Vocational Rehabilitation Week. More than 63,000 Veterans have benefited from the program each year. We salute the 1000 team members who help make it happen.
Veteran Jay Phillips, who has Parkinson’s disease, encourages Veterans, their families and caregivers who have questions about Parkinson’s to join a free online program March 20 from 9 a.m. - noon ET.
Despite the challenges of working in a mobile kitchen, Tucson VA Nutrition and Food Service staff kept a positive attitude focusing on teamwork and serving healthy meals to inpatient Veterans.
The Customer Experience Cookbook provides a guide to government agencies looking to build customer experience capabilities.
The best images from across the VA. This week, photographers from Dallas, Salt Lake City, Phoenix, Central Arkansas, and Milwaukee shared their best images.
Bill Watts earned awards during his tours of duty which included service as a Gulf War combat Veteran. Today his award is the one he receives as an advocate helping his fellow Gulf War Veterans.
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.
To provide well-rounded health care, VA seeks complementary medical providers and traditional health care professionals interested in this approach.
Pantry project is a partnership between VA and Feeding America. As of January 2020, the program served Vets more than 710,000 meals including some for dietary and health restrictions such as diabetes.
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