News releases

Veterans experiencing homelessness in Central Iowa are finding permanent housing solutions at a higher success rate than anticipated and also higher than the national average.

Central Iowa Veterans Affairs Medical Center and the City of Des Moines have been selected to host the 2023 National Veterans Golden Age Games May 20 to 25, 2023, at various venues around Iowa’s capital city region.

Intensive Care Unit Nurse Manager at the Central Iowa VA Health Care System Katie Lunning will be awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross January 7 marking only the second time the honor has been given to a nurse.

Veterans Affairs Central Iowa is working to streamline the onboarding process by hosting an Onboarding Surge Event designed to allow incoming employees who have received a tentative job offer access to all requirements for employment at one place and one time.

A total of 732 Veterans, caregivers and family members received information or got their annual flu shots or both as they drove through the third annual Drive Through Shot Clinic and Resource Fair.

In response to the ongoing affordable housing crisis, the VA Central Iowa Healthcare System is encouraging local landlords to support its homeless Veterans program, which provides rental subsidies and landlord support for approximately 165 Veterans and their families in the Des Moines area.

VA of Central Iowa will celebrate the opening of a new Community Living Center (CLC) facility with a ribbon-cutting ceremony at 2 p.m. August 30, at 3600-30th Street Des Moines, Building 25.

VA of Central Iowa celebrated the opening of its new, South Des Moines Primary Care Clinic with a ribbon-cutting ceremony today at 1211 East Army Post Road near the Southridge Mall complex.

VA of Central Iowa is opening a new Primary Care Clinic in South Des Moines at 1211 E. Army Post Road in the Southridge Mall complex in a building formerly occupied by the Toys R Us chain. The public is invited to attend a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the facility at 3 p.m. on Aug. 17.

Staff at the VA Central Iowa are planting seeds of healing.