Stories
Read about what's happening in our VA Bay Pines health care community.
Arguably, no one knows the importance of the adage ‘the eyes are the windows to the soul’ better than optometrists.
Bay Pines VA Healthcare System Executive Leaders announced Trena Frederiksen as the 2023 Employee of the Year, during the organization’s Employee Town Hall, Jan. 25.
Veteran military spouse and Bay Pines VA Healthcare System Assistant Chief Nurse of Mental Health Dr. Danielle Hallman is embracing her selection as a 2024 MIT Catalyst Fellow.
The VA Sunshine Healthcare Network (VISN 8) kicked off 2024 with a three-day High Reliability Summit in Tampa, Fla. As part of the group’s training, and to gain a better understanding of best practices from outside of health care, the group visited TECO Peoples Gas.
Bay Pines VA Healthcare System recognizes the long-term effects obesity can have, which affects more than 40 percent of the American population, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Across VHA healthcare, there is one group who supports the needs of every patient, regardless of that Veteran’s need. Although their interactions are often brief, it’s the work behind the scenes that the 164 pharmacists at Bay Pines VA Healthcare System do that makes an impact on Veterans.
The dawn of a new year often brings with it a desire to evolve, and Bay Pines VA Healthcare System is no exception to that sentiment. On Jan. 4, 2024, the Bay Pines VA’s Homeless Patient Aligned Care Team (HPACT) brought the organization’s Mobile Medical Unit to the community for the first time.
Bay Pines VA Healthcare System needs volunteers to fill many rolls across our healthcare system. No one understands the importance of this role better than Center for Development and Civic Engagement Specialist Edgardo Solivan.
Retired U.S. Army Lt. Col. Roy Prince and his wife, Ginger, have spent the last 14 years celebrating the start of a new year with a kiss. However, the couple’s New Year’s Eve tradition had extra significance as they embraced at the stroke of midnight on Dec. 31, 2023.
A gathering of volunteers, a cluster of bikes, an oversized teddy bear, and a sea of gift sacks was the view encountered at a loading dock on the C.W.Y. VA Medical Center campus on the morning of Dec. 16, 2023.
