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Research on early COPD progression by Dr. Jeffrey Curtis and Christine Freeman of VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System was recently published in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Diseases, a Journal from the COPD Foundation.

Eighty years ago, then 19-year-old Lloyd Rice was a bilge rat on Navy destroyer escort when he first heard the news about D-Day. “We heard about it right away,” Mr. Rice recalls.
Author: Linda Offerle, RD, CSR - Advanced Practice Renal Dietitian - VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System - LTC Charles S. Kettles VA Medical Center

Veterans under the care of VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System (VAAAHS) are participating in a new treatment for heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF), and researchers are hopeful the new investigational device can alleviate symptoms of heart failure.

On a seemingly ordinary morning, an Ann Arbor Transit Authority bus became the scene of a horrifying attack. A 25-year-old woman and a 21-year-old man accidentally collided on the bus, but what followed was far from accidental.

VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System (VAAAHS) values your experience as a patient at the LTC Charles S. Kettles VA Medical Center and our Community Based Outpatient Clinics (CBOC). Let your voice be heard and represent your fellow Veteran’s by becoming a member of the VAAAHS Veterans Council (VAVC)!

Dr. Sanjay Saint has earned the 2022 Under Secretary’s Award for Outstanding Achievement in Health Services Research, the highest honor for a VA Health services researcher.

VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System is taking steps towards climate sustainability by decommissioning the nitrous oxide pipeline within the walls of the LTC Charles S. Kettles VA Medical Center.