December 10-17—during the “PACT Act Week of Action”—VA medical centers around the country will be holding in-person town halls to provide information on VA health care eligibility and benefits.
Houston VA swore in new honorary police chief 10-year-old DJ Daniel who is battling terminal spinal and brain cancer. “Welcome aboard, Chief.”
As a social worker at VA, your valued contributions make sure that health care for our Veterans is complete and coordinated.
Two Houston VA nurses received the Patriot Award, which is given for directly supporting employee’s Reservist or Guardsman service.
After by-pass surgery, Army Veteran Carl Haaland, avid woodworker, wanted to give his Houston VA cardiothoracic team a sign of his gratitude.
“I was impressed with how detail oriented they were with my assessments. Some staff members were blind, which gave me motivation and hope.”
Veteran Roy Cadwalder named his newest calf after his primary care doctor, Barbara Trautner, to thank her for 20 years of excellent care.
A Marine Corps Veteran talked about his service in the Persian Gulf while doctors performed an awake craniotomy to remove his brain tumor.
Houston VA surgeons successfully complete VA’s first use of ROSA, a minimally invasive robotic device, on an Army Veteran from Oklahoma.
Singh is a professor at Baylor College of Medicine and an investigator at the Center for Innovations in Quality, Effectiveness and Safety (IQuESt), a VA-funded research center at the DeBakey VA Medical Center.
VA mental health professionals walk alongside Veterans on their journey to improve their mental health, prevent Veteran suicide.
Many groundbreaking methods, procedures, and diagnostic tools can trace their origins back to VA innovation.












