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  • Telephonic applications: Making health care easier for Veterans

    Telephonic applications: Making health care easier for Veterans

    Well, the last few days/weeks of a lot of peoples’ [...]

  • Finding Solace in Companion Dogs

    Finding Solace in Companion Dogs

    Marion VA Medical Center's new pilot program focuses on a dog's companionship and therapeutic potential and the benefits they offer to Veterans.

  • VA Begins Implementation of Open Source EHR

    VA Begins Implementation of Open Source EHR

    To advance health care services, VA has utilized telemedicine to extend their reach. The open source Electronic Health Record, VistA, is one tool.

  • Update: Office of Rural Health

    Update: Office of Rural Health

    VA seeks to shift from an inpatient system to a continuum of health care. Focus is on home-based primary care, outpatient clinics, and telehealth services.

  • Loss of VA Benefits: Is It True?

    Loss of VA Benefits: Is It True?

    VA Medical Center volunteers experience issues with their 100% Unemployable status for mental health disability. A response from the VBA is requested.

  • HIV Testing Day: Step Up!

    HIV Testing Day: Step Up!

    HIV Testing Day at a VA Medical Center may help put your mind at ease or save your life. Say yes to the free HIV test.

  • Easter Seals to Provide Support for Caregivers

    Easter Seals to Provide Support for Caregivers

    VA partners with the non-profit Easter Seals to offer better support to Veterans and their families through caregiver services.

  • America’s Heroes: Caregivers Get More Support

    America’s Heroes: Caregivers Get More Support

    VA and Easter Seals partner to provide training to Family Caregivers. A program application for services is available for injured post-9/11 Veterans.

  • Personalized Medicine and the Million Veteran Program

    Personalized Medicine and the Million Veteran Program

    The Million Veteran Program will help personalize medical treatment by gaining a better understanding of the effects genes have on health and illness.

  • Electronic Health Records: The Latest Expansion

    Electronic Health Records: The Latest Expansion

    The VA and DoD work to create a shared lifetime electronic records system and the successes of the Virtual Lifetime Electronic Record is a great start.

  • Increasing Access: Reaching Out to Rural Veterans

    Increasing Access: Reaching Out to Rural Veterans

    Nearly 40 percent of enrolled Veterans live in rural areas of our country. These Veterans have difficulty in obtaining access to quality health care.

  • Thriving Beyond the Wounds of War

    Thriving Beyond the Wounds of War

    Iraq War Veteran, Alan participated in the National Disabled Veterans Winter Sports Clinic, but he wasn’t just skiing, he was thriving.

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Last updated May 12, 2025

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