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  • VA to host town halls for Veterans, families during ‘PACT Act Week of Action’

    VA to host town halls for Veterans, families during ‘PACT Act Week of Action’

    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.

  • 10-year-old sworn in as honorary Houston VA police chief

    10-year-old sworn in as honorary Houston VA police chief

    Houston VA swore in new honorary police chief 10-year-old DJ Daniel who is battling terminal spinal and brain cancer. “Welcome aboard, Chief.”

  • Share your compassion and understanding as a VA social worker

    Share your compassion and understanding as a VA social worker

    As a social worker at VA, your valued contributions make sure that health care for our Veterans is complete and coordinated.

  • Houston VA nurses given DoD Patriot Awards

    Houston VA nurses given DoD Patriot Awards

    Two Houston VA nurses received the Patriot Award, which is given for directly supporting employee’s Reservist or Guardsman service.

  • Veteran carves special “sign” of thanks for Houston VA cardiologists

    Veteran carves special “sign” of thanks for Houston VA cardiologists

    After by-pass surgery, Army Veteran Carl Haaland, avid woodworker, wanted to give his Houston VA cardiothoracic team a sign of his gratitude.

  • Blind Veteran grateful to Houston VA Low Vision Clinic

    Blind Veteran grateful to Houston VA Low Vision Clinic

    “I was impressed with how detail oriented they were with my assessments. Some staff members were blind, which gave me motivation and hope.”

  • Special tribute: Houston Veteran names new calf after his VA doctor

    Special tribute: Houston Veteran names new calf after his VA doctor

    Veteran Roy Cadwalder named his newest calf after his primary care doctor, Barbara Trautner, to thank her for 20 years of excellent care.

  • Neurosurgeons perform first ‘awake’ brain surgery at Houston VA

    Neurosurgeons perform first ‘awake’ brain surgery at Houston VA

    A Marine Corps Veteran talked about his service in the Persian Gulf while doctors performed an awake craniotomy to remove his brain tumor.

  • Meet ROSA: Robot guides brain surgery at Houston VA

    Meet ROSA: Robot guides brain surgery at Houston VA

    Houston VA surgeons successfully complete VA’s first use of ROSA, a minimally invasive robotic device, on an Army Veteran from Oklahoma.

  • VA researchers’ guidelines on electronic health records adopted into Medicare policy

    VA researchers’ guidelines on electronic health records adopted into Medicare policy

    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 work to prevent Veteran suicide

    VA mental health professionals work to prevent Veteran suicide

    VA mental health professionals walk alongside Veterans on their journey to improve their mental health, prevent Veteran suicide.

  • Ten times VA led the way in health innovation

    Ten times VA led the way in health innovation

    Many groundbreaking methods, procedures, and diagnostic tools can trace their origins back to VA innovation.

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Last updated December 15, 2022

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