VA North Texas Health Care System

Flake is a research scientist at the VA North Texas Health Care System, where he tries to improve services for Veterans who have collided with the criminal justice system by focusing on rehabilitation needs and barriers. He’s leading a project in which health care providers and formerly incarcerated Veterans collaborate to identify priority goals including employment, housing, and substance use treatment.

Common statins are atorvastatin (sold as Lipitor), fluvastatin (Lescol XL), and pitavastatin (Livalo). More than 35 million Americans take the prescription drugs to help control cholesterol.

“The Vet Center has been helpful and there are some extra things I’ve learned. I came to see what information might be useful to me.”

VA researchers are studying GERD, a digestive disorder that affects the lower esophageal valve that controls the flow between the esophagus and stomach.

Veterans across the country who can’t make it to a VA facility for the flu shot can visit a Walgreens for a no cost flu vaccination by presenting their Veterans Health Identification card.

Russell Fields patrolled the gritty, dangerous streets of Al-Fallujah, Iraq.

An Eagle Scout, college graduate, and airborne-qualified Soldier, Fields led soldiers as a noncommissioned officer in the 10th Mountain Division. His unit fought street-to-street, door-to-door, in urban conflict. He lost Soldiers, placing them in body bags. Reality changed for Fields when he left the battlefield and the military to return home to Texas and start a new life. Fields faced a new form of combat. Flashbacks, images of combat, and the faces of those killed came rushing back. Everyday events like shopping, loud noises and crowds of people left him unprepared.

VA North Texas cut the ribbon opening its newest facility, the Denton Mental Health Annex, Aug. 2, which will provide increased Veteran care.

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

David Janke likes to wear comfortable shorts around VA North […]

In 2017, VA North Texas provided health care to over 133,000 Veterans at 1.5 million outpatient visits over a 40-county service area in two states.

In partnership with the Department of Defense and the Department […]

Recreational therapy reduces or removes limitations and restrictions that prevent patients from enjoying recreation and leisure as the road to whole health care.