Stories

From 1992 to 2006, Army Veteran Greg Hammonds lived a life on the go. He deployed to Iraq and when he wasn’t deployed, he prepared for deployments.

The Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center in Houston recently became the first VA in the nation to become accredited as a Level 4 Epilepsy Center by the National Association of Epilepsy Centers (NAEC).

Doctors at the Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center in Houston are utilizing groundbreaking new heart implant therapy to help Veterans with heart failure live happier and healthier lives.

Did you get your flu shot in the community?

On Feb. 23, Houston VA continued its expansion of minimally invasive surgeries by performing our first single port robotic simple prostatectomy using the state of the art da Vinci Surgical System.

For years, Air Force Veteran Deanna King struggled with fatigue and exhaustion. Today, after seeking help at the Houston VA and receiving a new device designed to treat sleep apnea, she is sleeping like a baby.

This week Army Veteran Brian Bilderback and his wife, Beth became man and wife in the Houston VA Chapel. Less than 48 hours after they tied the knot, Bilderback was in the Houston VA hospital operating room receiving a liver transplant. 

U.S. Army Veteran Dr. Robert Tartell’s screenplay “The Window Washer”, recently placed Silver in the VA-sponsored National Veteran Creative Artists Competition.

Veterans in the Houston metro area have a new resource center. The Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center will be cutting the ribbon on its new Community Resource and Referral Center (CRRC) on Friday, Feb. 23.

Vietnam Veteran Allan Perkins, knows no bounds when it comes to being a public servant.