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Veteran, Family, and Community Engagement
Sharing Resources and Improving the Experience of Veterans, their families, caregivers, and survivors.
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The Fisher House Foundation and VA recently broke ground for two Veteran Affairs Medical Center (VAMC) facilities.
The most recent groundbreakings took place at the Hershel “Woody” Williams VAMC in Huntington, West Virginia, in October (pictured above), and at the Southeast Louisiana Veterans VAMC in New Orleans, Louisiana, in November.
Veterans at Sanford Health get recognized for their service whether they’re working or getting health care.
Special touches like veterans lanyards, name tags, pins and car decals impressed representatives from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. They toured Sanford USD Medical Center during a visit to Sioux Falls, South Dakota, this week.
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Over the next several years, VA will transition to a new electronic health record (EHR), a system used by health care providers to store and track patient data. This transition will begin in spring 2020 at Mann-Grandstaff VA Medical Center in Spokane, Washington. As VA shifts to the new EHR, the Office of Electronic Health Record Modernization took the chance to answer your most frequently asked questions. |
Veterans, families, friends and the general public have several options to see Vietnam memorial walls in 2020 with the release of traveling wall schedules.
Before visiting one of the traveling walls, a doctor from the National Center for PTSD said Veterans with PTSD should consider their expectations for the visit and how the visit fits into their recovery goals.
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Last month, National Veterans Intermediary (NVI) launched “Models for Shared Learning,” the tenth and final course in its groundbreaking collaboration with PsychArmor Institute.
The “School for Communities Serving Veterans” is a portfolio of online courses that help veteran-serving leaders hone the skills needed to achieve impact at all stages of the “collaborative journey."
NVI researched and developed these courses in collaboration with subject matter experts from RAND and the Aspen Institute’s Collective Impact Forum (CIF), and included perspectives from experienced practitioners from among their Local Partner network.
The school is narrated by a cast of subject matter experts who represent diverse leadership experiences: retired General Martin Dempsey, Bob Woodruff Foundation co-founder and ABC News correspondent Bob Woodruff, retired Colonel John Tien, Maj. Renee Swift-McCain, Ed. D, former Navy SEAL Jon Sanchez, Mayor Andy Ryder of Lacey, WA, Robert Albright of CIF, NVI Local Partner co-chair and Army veteran Blake Bourne, and several veterans from the NVI team.
Whether you’re new to collaborative leadership or have some experience under your belt, any one of the ten courses can offer you some insight and an opportunity for learning and reflection.
For more information please contact NVI at info@nvi.org.
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