Bellevue clinic to relocate in June

VA Nebraska-Western Iowa Health Care System will relocate its community-based outpatient clinic in Bellevue, Neb., to a new location in June. The clinic will relocate to the Bellevue Professional Center, 2206 Longo Drive, a site 4.7 miles from the current location.

Veterans will continue to receive appointments and health care without interruption during the relocation with their current providers. Click here to read more on page 6 of The Link.  

DAISY founders visit Omaha VAMC

DAISY Foundation founders Bonnie and Mark Barnes visited nurses April 25 at the Omaha VA Medical Center to thank them for what they do each day. Through their foundation, the Barnes created the DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nurses in memory of their son Patrick who died of an auto-immune disease at age 33. Click here to read more on page 6 of The Link.  

Honoring Asian-Pacific Islander Heritage

In 1860, the U.S. population was 31,443,321, of which 34,933 were identified as being of Asian-Pacific Island heritage. Very few soldiers of Asian descent served in the Civil War, but one of them who did lived at what today is known as the VA Black Hills Health Care Center in Hot Springs, S.D.

Edward Day Cohota was born in China around 1843 and brought to America from Shanghai in 1845 by Captain Sargent S. Day of the merchant ship Cohota.  Click here to read more on page 9 of The Link.