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This Thursday, 4/16 at 2 p.m. ET, VHA recruiters and employees will discuss the benefits of a career at VA and the transition from trainee to employee.

The Associated Press recently reported on VA health care appointment […]

VA joins the nation in the commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the end of the Civil War

Before my husband passed away in 2014, I made him many promises. One of those promises is writing this story to share with others about VA's Veterans' Mortgage Life Insurance (VMLI), the lesser-known benefit that kept me from losing my home.

Two arms, two legs, 10 fingers and 10 toes, are physical attributes that most people take for granted. Whether walking up and down stairs, taking a light morning jog, typing on a keyboard or simply getting out of bed and walking to the kitchen, these daily functions, for most people, are seamless. For those missing one or more of these body parts, life can prove top be more challenging. Meet the Bay Pines VA Healthcare System’s Veteran Amputee Support group – a small, family-like assemblage of Veterans who meet in a small rehab wing located in the Community Living Center (CLC) at the C.W. Bill Young VA Medical Center.

What works in research labs often takes decades to make it to doctors’ offices and hospital bedsides, where patients might experience it as “evidence based care.” There are many reasons for this slow progress. For one, most research is done in big-city academic hospitals that are unlike where most Americans receive their health care. That makes it hard to adapt what worked under near-perfect situations into real-life healthcare, which is a lot messier. Researchers are also often on their own, many steps removed from healthcare management and policy decision-making.

VA is committed to providing high quality, proactive, personalized, patient-driven […]

Through it all, this is what I’ve learned: adaptive sports can take you from a place where you see no future to a place where you determine your own. But let me be clear: there is no single roadmap to recovery. No one can prescribe a single drug or a single treatment to make you whole again. Your best recovery will come from the methods that work best for you. The sooner you embrace that idea, the quicker you’ll recover.

In the 1950s, VA became the first organization to mail […]

VA is issuing a Notice of Funding Availability for up to $8 million in grants for fiscal year 2015 to provide adaptive sports opportunities for disabled Veterans and disabled members of the Armed Forces throughout fiscal year 2016.

Veteran homelessness in Florida is down by 59 percent in […]

On Tuesday, VA Deputy Secretary Sloan Gibson announced a change […]