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  • Veterans: #FightFlu this year with a flu shot

    Veterans: #FightFlu this year with a flu shot

    Help fight the flu by getting a flu shot at no charge. Getting a flu shot helps protect you, your family and loved ones and your community from getting sick with the flu. Even more important this year.

  • VA Welcome Kit simplifies VA benefits, service process

    VA Welcome Kit simplifies VA benefits, service process

    The VA Welcome Kit answers the question "What can VA do for me?"

  • Kidney transplant program restores Veterans’ quality of life

    Kidney transplant program restores Veterans’ quality of life

    The Organ Procurement Transplantation Network’s (OPTN’s) KPD program enables two people to match with two other pairs of incompatible people to exchange matching kidneys.

  • Health Information Sharing is essential to Veterans’ health

    Health Information Sharing is essential to Veterans’ health

    Health care is personal, and trust comes from feeling that [...]

  • Chillicothe VA fair focuses on dementia support

    Chillicothe VA fair focuses on dementia support

    Millions of Americans age 65 and older live with dementia. Veterans age 65 and older are the fastest growing population served by the VA. Chillicothe health fair has help for those who suffer and their caregivers.

  • Liver: The forgotten organ

    Liver: The forgotten organ

    The liver is often overlooked compared to the heart and brain, but is important to our health to keep us sharp as we age. When we think of the liver, we may think it is enough to simply limit how much alcohol we drink. But what about the food we eat?

  • President, Secretary to host MISSION Act conference call Tuesday, 6/25

    President, Secretary to host MISSION Act conference call Tuesday, 6/25

    President Trump and Secretary Wilkie will host a conference call on Tuesday, June 25, at 11:45 AM EST to discuss the one-year anniversary of the MISSION Act

  • President, Secretary to host MISSION Act conference call Tuesday, 6/25

    President, Secretary to host MISSION Act conference call Tuesday, 6/25

    President Trump and Secretary Wilkie will host a conference call on Tuesday, June 25, at 11:45 AM EST to discuss the one-year anniversary of the MISSION Act.

  • VA Registered Dietitian Nutritionist: Food fuels your mind!

    VA Registered Dietitian Nutritionist: Food fuels your mind!

    VA Registered Dietitian Nutritionist (RDN) weighs in on the benefits of how healthy eating and activity patterns can enhance your mood and brain functions!

  • Combat Veteran roommates share stories, healing experience at VA North Texas

    Combat Veteran roommates share stories, healing experience at VA North Texas

    Two Veterans who had never met or seen each other in passing became temporary in-patient roommates, share stories, healing, at VA North Texas.

  • ICYMI: #ExploreVA Facebook Live Event on the MISSION Act

    ICYMI: #ExploreVA Facebook Live Event on the MISSION Act

    The MISSION Act will strengthen the nationwide VA Health Care System by empowering Veterans with more health care options.

  • It’s not the same old hospital food-San Francisco VHA shares how their hospital meals have evolved!

    It’s not the same old hospital food-San Francisco VHA shares how their hospital meals have evolved!

    In 2012, to lose the traditional hospital food image, San Francisco VA Healthcare System rewrote its menu and went back to the basics by cooking recipes from scratch.

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