Health

In early January the VA Medical Center in Muskogee, Okla., became a brighter, cheerier place with the arrival of its newest staff member. Her name is Honor, and she’s only 18-months-old.

If you feel sad in the winter, you may have Seasonal Affective Disorder. It is sometimes called winter depression. Here’s information on treatment, including light therapy, from a VA psychiatrist.

The scent of rubber tires, car engines and used motor oil fills the air; no matter what direction you turn, the smells are inescapable. Not a great way to start your day for some folks, but, for a group of Los Angeles Veterans visiting the Automobile Driving Museum in El Segundo, California, the aromas remind them of days when automobiles were a symbol of freedom and helped define their generation.

Betty Cunar served as a nurse in the Vietnam war. During American Heart Month, she shares her story of care she receives from VA to remind Veterans of the importance of knowing your heart numbers.

Regardless of the circumstances that bring Veterans and their families to living in cars and over the heating vents of the subway, it’s a fate that none of us would wish on anyone. And a problem that we all wish we could fix.

VA’s TeleHealth service utilizes health informatics to care for Veterans and helps them live independently and stay out of the hospital…essential for their overall health care and personal goals.

Veteran Kenneth Augustus was at peace as his life came to an end, but that didn’t mean he was done living. A VA recreation therapist helped him remove skydiving from his bucket list.

VA has begun publicly posting information on opioids dispensed from VA pharmacies, along with VA’s strategies to prescribe these pain medications appropriately and safely.

Since its launch in 2007, the Veterans Crisis Line has been an invaluable resource for Veterans nationwide — answering more than 3 million calls and initiating the dispatch of emergency services to callers in crisis nearly 78,000 times.

Managing patient flow during a natural disaster requires hospital staff to be able to view available beds at any of VHA’s 144 medical centers across the nation.

Minneapolis VA opens new “Integrative Center for Health & Healing”, part of VA’s new emphasis on “Veteran-Centric” care. Once considered “alternative” therapy, studies now show their effectiveness.

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