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Read about what's happening in our VA Bay Pines health care community.

  • Across the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, when staff strive to deliver timely and world-class health care, they are embodying the ideal of honoring those who served.

    employee and her grandfather

  • Bay Pines VA Healthcare System is the latest recipient of the Ron Hesch Mission First Award.

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  • Bay Pines VA Healthcare System has reached its latest achievement, surpassing 23,000 Veterans registered as part of the U.S. Department of Affairs’ Million Veteran Program (MVP).

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  • Bay Pines VA Healthcare System has spent the last nine months raising awareness of women Veterans as part of the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs’ year-long celebration of 100 years of health care to women.

    Photo of Women Veteran Program

  • The need for health care doesn’t stop just because it’s 5:00 p.m., the weekend, or a holiday. In fact, the busiest time for both urgent care clinics and emergency rooms is early afternoon and evening hours.

    VISN 8 Clinical Contact Center hired two nocturnists, or physicians who work overnight, to truly become the 24/7/365 virtual urgent care service leaders aspired it to be.

  • For the second time in 11 months, Bay Pines VA Healthcare System activated emergency operations to prepare for the potential impact and aftermath of a hurricane headed for the western coast of Florida.

    Photo of EMS evacuation of Veteran

  • To strengthen our readiness, Bay Pines VA Healthcare System’s Police Service is hosting virtual active threat training sessions for all employees. The hour-long sessions provide staff with the tools they need to appropriately respond to an active threat.

    A man sits at his computer and facilitates a virtual active threat training session.

  • Bay Pines VA Healthcare System’s Police Service has added another element to support their ongoing mission to protect those who served.

    Two male police officers from the Bay Pines VA Healthcare System's Police Service are pictured here with their body cameras. They are standing shoulder to shoulder, in front of a wall in the police station. The gentleman on the left is wearing a dark navy ball cap.

  • Of the many opinions that exist regarding life’s essence, there remains one indisputable fact; change is inevitable.

    A man sits in a wheelchair with U.S. Army fatigues and a baseball cap that has the words "World War II Veteran" written across it. He is sitting in front of his work station, holding a cane that he crafted.

  • The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) knocked it out of the park during a joint PACT Act event at Tropicana Field, August 5.

    Dr. Amin Elamin, Bay Pines VA chief of staff (right), explains details to a Veteran about toxic exposure screening during the joint VetFest event at Tropicana Field, support the PACT Act, Aug. 5. (Photo by Thomas Cole, Bay Pines VA).