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Ready to get paid via EFT for CHAMPVA claims?
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Emergent suicide care benefit
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Great American
Spit Out
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V A "G O O D N E W S" S T O R I E S
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How familiar are you with ketamine and its use in VA? An upcoming presentation on February 14 at 2 p.m. ET will review the history and role of ketamine in treating Veterans who experience depression and suicidality and discuss implementation of ketamine delivery programs across VA. Ketamine is a dissociative anesthetic and was approved for use in VA in March 2019 for treatment-resistant depression.
You can secure one (1) credit hour for this event. Accreditations include ACCME, ACCME-NP, ACPE, ANCC, AOTA, APA, ASWB, JA IPCE, NBCC, NYSED-P, NYSED-SW. As with all VHA TRAIN programs, if you need assistance registering you can contact the Help Desk at vhatrain@va.gov.
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Since the launch of a landmark, life-saving benefit for Veterans experiencing emergency suicidal crisis, nearly 50,000 Veterans have used the benefit.
Veterans at the greatest risk of self-harm can go to any emergency room to receive the care they need right now, as well as up to 90 days of related follow-on treatment and services, including initial transportation costs. The benefit was made possible by the Veterans Comprehensive Prevention, Access to Care, and Treatment Act of 2020 (COMPACT).
You should report instances of a Veteran presenting to your emergency department to VA’s Emergency Care Centralized Notification Center using VA’s Emergency Care Reporting portal, https://EmergencyCareReporting.CommunityCare.va.gov, or by calling 844-72HRVHA (844-724-7842). Episodes of Veterans reporting to a community emergency department for treatment should be reported as soon as possible to establish their health care eligibility and begin care coordination or transfer to a VA facility.
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The Great American Spit Out takes place February 22 — an ideal time to help your Veteran patients snuff out smokeless tobacco. VA has quit plans and resources your patients can reference that include counseling, medication, and nicotine replacement therapy.
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E D U C A T I O N & T R A I N I N G
This day-long training will provide clinicians and health care staff with foundational knowledge necessary to address Veterans’ post-deployment and exposure-related health care needs. Topics include information on airborne hazards, agent orange, gulf war exposures, and more. This training is appropriate for any health care professional interested in learning more about military environmental exposures.
Date: Thursday, Feb. 22 at 9:30 a.m. ET
Location: VHA TRAIN
ID#: 1116234
Credit/hours: One (1)
Accreditations: AAPA, ACCME, ACCME-NP, ACPE, ANCC, APA, ASWB, JA IPCE, NBCC, NYSED-P, NYSED-SW
End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium: Symptom Management
This webinar will present information on the importance of goal-concordant prescribing with a seriously ill population, particularly as they approach end of life. The challenges of prescribing medications with an older and frail population will be discussed, including how to identify potentially inappropriate medications for this population. This module explores several common symptoms that Veterans with life-threatening diseases and serious illness experience. The audience includes physicians, nurses, psychologists, pharmacists, and social workers.
Date: Thursday, Feb. 29 at 3 p.m. ET
Location: VHA TRAIN
ID#: 1115979
Credit/hours: One (1)
Accreditations: ACCME, ACCME-NP, ACPE, ANCC, APA, ASWB, JAIPCE, NYSED-P, NYSED-SW
Maximizing Participation in Fitness and Adaptive Sports for Patients with Limb Loss
This presentation focuses on integration of a comprehensive, multidisciplinary evaluation for Veterans with limb loss to increase participation and success in fitness and sports endeavors. Preparation for these events requires a comprehensive evaluation by an interdisciplinary health care team to ensure the Veteran is best prepared to optimize their experience.
Location: VHA TRAIN
ID#: 1101930
Credit/hours: One (1) hour
Accreditations: ACCME, ACCME-NP, AOTA, American Physical Therapists Association (APTA), COPS-KT
Preventing Suicide Through Lethal Means Safety and Safety Planning
This course provides updated lethal means safety training and resources for VHA facility Suicide Prevention Coordinators and other MH/SP clinicians.
Location: VHA TRAIN
ID#: 1075258
Accreditations: APA, ACCME, ACCME-NP, ANCC, APA, NBCC, ASWB, NYSED SW
Opioid Safety Initiative
This course promotes evidence-based management of Veterans with chronic pain to improve patient outcomes and decrease incidence of complications associated with opioid prescribing.
Location: VHA TRAIN
ID#: 1086479
Credit/hours: one (1)
Training available through Optum and TriWest
Numerous live and on-demand webinars and trainings are offered by Optum and TriWest to fit your schedule. Check them out!
Questions? If you require assistance, please contact the VHA TRAIN Help Desk by email at vhatrain@va.gov.
How to obtain your credit completion certificate:
Once you complete a credited training, you can obtain your credential certificate(s) in four easy steps:
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Log in to VHA Train - https://vha.train.org/vha/login
- Go to “Your Learning”
- Go to “Your Certificates”
- Download your certificate
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W E B I N A R S
The Long-COVID webinar series continues Feb. 7 with Dr. Avindra Nath who will present Effects of SARS-CoV-2 on the brain: How they manifest, why they occur and what can be done about it. This training will build on researchers', clinicians', and inter-professional health care teams' understanding of Long-COVID and support development of research-based protocols for prevention, diagnosis, and treatment. The presentation includes a question-and-answer session.
Dr. Nath is clinical director of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md., where he is also chief of the Section of Infections of the Nervous System, director of the Translational Center for Neurological Sciences.
DATE & TIME: Wednesday, Feb. 7, at 1 p.m. ET
LOCATION: VHA TRAIN
ID#: 1116723
WEBINAR LINK - Webinar password: y4J2N8FmmJ@ (94526836 from phones and video systems). To join by phone: 404-397-1596, access code: 2764 949 1526.
The Long COVID lecture series highlights research on post-acute and long-term outcomes of COVID-19. The series began in the summer of 2022 within the St. Louis VA Health Care System and was conceived and developed by Uly Labilles, Ph.D., research-health science specialist, Office of Research and Development, and Ziyad A-Aly, MD, research and development service chief.
To be added to the Long COVID Lecture Series distribution list, contact
Alysha.Hunter@va.gov.
Accreditation(s): ACCME, ACCME-NP, ACPE, ANCC, APA, APTA, JA IPCE, NBCC, NYSED-P
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V E T E R A N S S P O T L I G H T
Suzanne Dubberly Speight - Enlisted in the Navy three years after graduating from high school in 1986. She entered the Naval Reserve on Feb. 1, 1991, with the Naval Broadcasting and Television Center in Bermuda. During Operation Iraqi Freedom, Speight deployed with the First Marine Expeditionary Force, Engineering Group, to Camp Fallujah, Iraq, from October 2004 to March 2005. She served as a war correspondent and visited with injured Seabees, Marines, and soldiers to hear their stories. After retiring as a chief petty officer from the Naval Reserve in 2009, Speight worked for the Navy Region Southeast (NRSE) as a community relations specialist. Speight retired from federal service in January 2022. She died in May 2022 after a 15-year battle with lung cancer from burn pit exposure in Fallujah. She was 56. Check out more of Suzanne Dubberly Spelights story here.
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Meadow G. Lemon III - The “clown prince” of basketball known as Meadowlark Lemon, was drafted into the U.S. Army in 1952 while a college student at Florida A&M University. He completed basic training at Fort Jackson, S.C., and served two years stationed in Salzburg, Germany. In Germany, the future member of The Original Harlem Globetrotters played on an Army base basketball team, averaging 55 points per game compared to his teammates’ combined 13 points. Lemon left the Army in 1954 and played with the Kansas City All-Stars for a year before joining the Globetrotters for a 23-year career. Meadowlark Lemon died on Sunday, Dec. 27, 2015. He was 83. Check out more of Meadow G. Lemon III's story here.
We honor their service
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V A "G O O D N E W S" S T O R I E S
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An Army Veteran from Houston, Sammie Robertson, is the first VA patient in the country to receive a dose of Adstiladrin, the first and only FDA-approved gene therapy to help fight non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer. Adstiladrin works with the body’s immune cells and delivers a gene that encodes an interferon protein to a patient’s bladder so it can fight cancer. Robertson, who served two tours of duty in Korea during his 10 years of Army service said, “I have faith in the doctors here at Houston VA, and when they told me I might be a candidate to get this medicine, I said, ‘Let’s go for it.’” |
VA recently announced it will fund research on new therapies to treat mental health conditions; specifically, use of certain psychedelic compounds in treating post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression. VA intends to gather definitive scientific evidence on potential efficacy and safety of compounds such as Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) and psilocybin when used in conjunction with psychotherapy to treat Veterans with PTSD and depression. This is the first time since the 1960s that VA is funding research on such compounds.
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COMMUNITY PROVIDERS: Thank you for all you do for our Veterans.
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