Alaska

The Alaska VA Healthcare System (AVAHS) offers primary, specialty, and mental health outpatient care.

Services are provided through a Joint Venture with the United States Air Force on nearby Elmendorf Air Force Base, as well as through purchased care arrangements with the community hospitals.  The facility also features a comprehensive Homeless Veteran Service, consisting of a Domiciliary Residential Rehabilitation Program, Veterans Industries, Compensated Work Therapy Transitional Residence Program, VA Supported Program, and Outreach.  More  

Boise

Boise VA Advances Health Care Research in the 21st Century

The Boise VA celebrated the opening of a new state-of-the-art Biomedical Research Laboratory on April 27th. More 

Portland

Want Help Losing Weight? Join Move!

A team of health care providers is ready to help you lose weight and keep it off.  Focus on health and wellness through healthy eating, physical activity and behavior change.  Best of all, it's free! Did you know, that research studies show losing as little as 5-10% of your current body weight lowers your risk of heart disease, hypertension, type 2 diabetes, and certain types of cancer?  More  

Puget Sound

Emergency Management

Being prepared for an emergency is more than just having some extra water and flashlights. For an organization that takes care of more than 80,000 Veterans a year, it means having plans for every reasonable scenario and practicing those plans so Veterans are cared for when the worst happens. More  

Roseburg

Prolonged Exposure Therapy and PTSD: Triumph Over Painful Memories

According to VA Clinical Psychologist, Dr. Mathew Yoder, “The only way to get past the anxiety is through it, not to avoid it.” Dr.Yoder speaks of many Veterans with PTSD, “They’ve tried to push their trauma away, but it doesn’t work.” More  

Spokane

New Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology Clinic Building

The Spokane Veterans Affairs Medical Center’s new $2.5-M Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology Clinic is now open, providing quality hearing health care and speech services to Veterans. More 

Walla Walla

Walla Walla VA's Chaplain Turns 90

Where do you see yourself at 90 years old? For each of us, a lot of different images pop into our heads. But one image most of us don't think of is - still working.

Walla Walla VA's Chaplain, Benjamin (Ben) Vegors, recently celebrated his 90th birthday, 40 of those years have been devoted to serving Veterans right here at the Jonathan M. Wainwright Memorial VA Medical Center. More 

White City (SORCC)

Kelly Goudreau Inducted into the American Academy of Nursing

Kelly Goudreau DSN, RN, ACNS-BC FAAN the Associate Director for Patient Care Services/Nurse Executive at the VA Southern Oregon Rehabilitation Center and Clinics in White City Oregon, was inducted into the American Academy of Nursing as a Fellow on Saturday October 13, 2012, in a ceremony attended by 1300 people at the Hyatt on Capitol Hill in Washington DC. More