VA North Texas

VA North Texas hosted its inaugural Operation (IN) Reach Career and Information Fair, offering on-the-spot interviews for over 150 Veterans.

Larry Barnett was an MLB umpire for nearly 38 years, but he’s visited VA hospitals since 1977 as part of the Disabled American Veterans (DAV) VA Voluntary Service Program. During this 42-year period, Barnett has made over 3,200 visits to 172 VA hospitals.

The Stress and Anxiety Management class at the Dallas VA helps Veterans handle their stress with techniques learned through adult coloring.

Veterans in North Texas are seeing the benefits of VA Video Connect. They receive the same quality health care while saving hours of their day.

VA Psychologist and Dungeons & Dragons "Dungeon Master," Dr. Jared Kilmer, started the role-playing group at the Dallas VA Medical Center as an alternative to traditional group therapy, focusing on social skills, problem solving skills, stress tolerance and perspective taking.

The DART Around therapy program was designed to aid Veterans with serious mental health illness in developing self-confidence and skills needed to function in social settings. Under supervision, the group of a dozen Veterans ventures out each week on the DART to different locations and build social skills with the help of their fellow Veterans.

VA North Texas offers alternative appointment times to accommodate Veterans who cannot make regular clinic hours at Dallas' Bravo Clinic.

Volunteering at VA is a family tradition for Jacqueline Reeves; her grandmother and great-grandmother have volunteered for more than two decades, and all three can routinely be found at VA on the same day.

Seventy VA North Texas Health Care System Veterans received a technological hand up on June 18th, thanks to Toyota Motor North America and Tech For Troops.

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

VA North Texas’ Comprehensive Integrated Inpatient Rehabilitation Program (CIIRP), an intense rehabilitation program that specializes in the care of Veterans who have suffered a stroke.

In 2017, VA North Texas provided  care to 133,000 active patients over 1.5 million times by leveraging the skills and dedication of 5,700 employees at 11 facilities in 40 counties throughout North Texas and Southern Oklahoma.