Your expertise as a physician assistant can be applied to numerous specialties within VA, all of them helping Veterans find the care they need.
VA works to build a better future for Veterans through research in four key areas — biomedicine, clinical sciences, health services and rehabilitation.
Jake served in the Marine Corps during the Vietnam War. After separating from service he was injured and partially paralyzed. He came to VA for help, and received much more than he expected.
Telehealth makes it easier for Veterans to connect with their VA care team. That’s why more Veterans are turning to telehealth. Here are a few ways Veterans are using telehealth right now.
Veterans in the Rubber Band, a 20-member musical group of Vets 70 and older at VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, find that it’s fun and therapeutic to write and play their own music.
Army Veteran Candice Caesar was paralyzed in an accident in Germany in 1999. When the doctors said they didn’t think she would walk again, she started planning a marathon. And she made it happen.
Josh Marino, an Army Veteran, is an education and outreach coordinator and a Veteran peer mentor at the Human Engineering Research Laboratories (HERL), a joint project between the VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System and the University of Pittsburgh.
From not being able to walk or talk, Army Veteran Cathy Davis now makes presentations at polytrauma conferences. A large team of VA doctors and specialists and her resolve made it happen.
It was an interaction with a patient that gave VA […]
Presented by VA and Paralyzed Veterans of America (PVA), the world’s largest sports event for Veterans who use wheelchairs.
This episode of The American Veteran includes a story about Charles Norman Shay, a Native American who landed on Omaha Beach in the first wave on D-Day as a combat medic
Thanks in large part to Dr. Donna Ames, Los Angeles […]