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  • VA leader’s visit New Mexico’s Taos Pueblo Tribe focuses on improving access to Veteran health care

    VA leader’s visit New Mexico’s Taos Pueblo Tribe focuses on improving access to Veteran health care

    The information and stories shared by our Veterans across Indian country helps VA effectively serve and reach our warriors once they return home to civilian life.

  • Phoenix VA Health Care System, TriWest, and CVS Health partner to increase Veteran access to health care services

    Phoenix VA Health Care System, TriWest, and CVS Health partner to increase Veteran access to health care services

    VA has announced a new initiative between that will expand access to high quality and convenient health care services for Veterans in Phoenix and surrounding communities.

  • VA’s new online tool helps Veterans make informed health care decisions

    VA’s new online tool helps Veterans make informed health care decisions

    VA's new online tool allows Veterans, caregivers and the public to access the most transparent and easy-to-understand wait time and quality of care measures across the health care industry.

  • Job One: Timely Access to Healthcare

    Job One: Timely Access to Healthcare

    When I took the helm of VHA one year ago, [...]

  • VA community care progress report: VA and Congress collaborate to push initiatives forward

    VA community care progress report: VA and Congress collaborate to push initiatives forward

    Our goal is to deliver a program that is easy to understand, simple to administer, and meets the needs of Veterans, community providers and VA staff.

  • One Veterans perspective on homelessness, PTSD and VA’s H-PACT teams

    One Veterans perspective on homelessness, PTSD and VA’s H-PACT teams

    In 2000, I ran. I was still running away from the guilt, shame, and anger of what I went through in the war. Chronic homelessness and life on the streets became my new reality until I found out about the VA Leeward CBOC in 2013. Another homeless Veteran friend of mine saw me on the streets and said he had been getting help from the H-PACT team. He told me to go get help.

  • Prolonged Exposure: A first-line treatment for PTSD

    Prolonged Exposure: A first-line treatment for PTSD

    In 2006, VA began a national training initiative to help [...]

  • VA program helps beneficiaries stricken with spina bifida

    VA program helps beneficiaries stricken with spina bifida

    When Evelyna Castro sees herself in a wheelchair she doesn’t [...]

  • Mobile Vet Center deployed to El Paso, Texas

    Mobile Vet Center deployed to El Paso, Texas

    A deployed a Mobile Vet Center and clinical staff today to provide counseling services to Veterans, Servicemembers, families and fellow VA staff members in the wake of Tuesday’s shooting at Ft. Bliss, Texas. The mobile center is currently located at the El Paso Community College (9050 Viscount St, Building A., El Paso) serving those in need of counseling services through 4:30 p.m. today.

  • Moving toward a Veteran-centered VA

    Moving toward a Veteran-centered VA

    How human-centered design can help VA prioritize people over processes. [...]

  • DATA: VA making progress in access, accountability, other areas

    DATA: VA making progress in access, accountability, other areas

    VA released five new fact sheets today updating progress in the key areas of access to care and benefits, accountability, implementation of the Choice Act and hospital quality care measures.

  • An open letter to America’s Veterans from Secretary Bob McDonald

    An open letter to America’s Veterans from Secretary Bob McDonald

    At the Department of Veterans Affairs, we have one of [...]

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