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November 08, 2019

Nov. 11 Celebration Parade, Recognition Ceremony, Free Lunch and Resource Fair

March 08, 2019

Funds to support geriatric research, improved care; provide comforts of home.

November 01, 2018

Edward Hines, Jr. VA Hospital is proud to announce the opening of Phase Two of the Freedom’s Path development, providing local Veterans access to another 52 units of one, two, and three-bedroom apartment homes.

April 24, 2018

The Edward Hines, Jr. VA Hospital in Hines, Ill., is proud to host the 38th Annual Hines Adaptive Sports Games on Saturday, May 5, 2018. Registration begins at 8:30 a.m. in the main hospital lobby with events scheduled to kick off at 10 a.m.

May 07, 2014

Edward Hines, Jr. VA Hospital was named Federal Agency of the Year during the Chicago Federal Executive Board’s annual Federal Employee of the Year Awards Ceremony held May 6 at the Harris Theater in Chicago.

December 13, 2013

A clinical neuroscientist at Edward Hines Jr. VA Hospital is educating the public about a commonly-seen injury in Veterans as part of a bi-weekly documentary series on severe Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI).

May 01, 2012

Veterans of military conflicts ranging from World War II all the way through current Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom will be participating in the 32nd Annual Hines Veterans Hospital Veteran Games on Saturday, May 5th in suburban Maywood.

February 22, 2012

For more than 10 years, Veterans at the Hines VA Hospital have benefitted from the spiritual guidance, experience, kindness and overall generosity of spirit displayed by Father James Burnett, Chief of the hospital’s Chaplain Service.

November 14, 2011

Edward Hines Jr. VA Hospital, in the Chicago suburbs, has been selected as a site for 120 permanent Veteran housing units.

October 27, 2011

Hines surgeons are not only using their minds, skills, and talent in the operating room; they will soon be accompanied by four extra arms and 3D vision. Hines VA Hospital will soon be proud to offer our Veteran patients the latest in operating room technology: the Da Vinci robot.