Health Care

The Million Veteran Program is a national research project learning how genes and military experiences and exposures affect health and illness.

Sabrina Clark is a VHA Innovation Ecosystem Revolutionary who gets local students involved in solving problems alongside VA.

Help recognize VA's health care heroes. Have you seen a VA employee doing something noteworthy, in words or action, and making a positive difference to the Veterans we serve? If so, consider nominating them for an I CARE Award.  

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

Do you know how this VA office works behind the scenes and why it’s really important to you and the Veteran community?

In the time of COVID-19, Veterans especially need to be able to count on  VA. That’s why an important goal of VA’s Office of Information and Technology (OIT) has been and continues to be using technology in ways that make accessing VA services increasingly more seamless, effective, efficient and easy for Veterans.

Thanks to VEText, a text message appointment reminder system for Veterans with the potential to decrease no-shows developed through VHAIE, VA already had systems in place to begin doing just that.

Veterans will see significant help through the American Rescue Plan, VA Secretary Denis McDonough told the House Veterans Affairs Committee March 25 during a virtual hearing.

Continuing to get Veterans—especially those in rural and highly rural areas—COVID-19 vaccinations is a high priority, VA Secretary Denis McDonough told reporters Feb. 23.

Stand Downs bring homeless Veterans together in a single location for one to three days. They are provided access to resources needed to address their individual problems and rebuild their lives.

During Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm, over 695,000 service members deployed, while 2.2 million were in service during the war. As of 2019, there were nearly 5 million living Veterans, of whom 2.7 million served exclusively during the Pre-9/11 time period. Here's how the access VA.

Talk to Veteran patients about preventing the flu by getting a flu shot. Veterans enrolled in VA health care are eligible for a free flu shot. Make vaccinations a routine part of patient care.