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  • Eight departments from within the Oscar G. Johnson VA Medical Center collected more than a half ton of food for the 2022 Feds Feed Families food drive from June 27 to Sept. 30.

    Candy Schoenborn stands with carts of food donated to Feds Feed Families Sept. 28

  • The Oscar G. Johnson VA Medical Center will offer the updated bivalent COVID-19 booster vaccine, as well as the annual Flu vaccine, beginning Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2022, from 10-11 a.m. and 3-4 p.m. on a walk-in basis in the primary care waiting room area.

  • The Oscar G. Johnson VA Medical Center and community-based outpatient clinics will be offering no-cost flu shots to Veteran’s beginning Sept. 26.

    Elderly man in a wheelchair having a discussion with a provider

  • The Oscar G. Johnson VA Medical Center received the 2021 Best Experience Award for level III (small, low complexity) facilities during the Customer Experience Symposium Sept. 7, in Washington D.C.

    Photo of Ellison and Kadowaki receiving the Best Experience Award

  • September is National Suicide Prevention Awareness Month, and Oscar G. Johnson VA Medical Center will conduct programs throughout the month to promote education and bring awareness to this dire situation.

    Iron Mountain VA promotes National Suicide Awareness Prevention Month

  • The Oscar G. Johnson VA Medical Center recently completed its 11th annual Adopt-A-Garden Contest Aug. 4, in which departments and individual employees adopt, plant, and tend to a garden area at the medical center.

    Pat Millan Waters supply chain's garden Aug. 11

  • The Oscar G. Johnson VA Medical Center has been funded for two pharmacist residents as part of an inaugural pharmacy residency training program, a first in the history of any medical facility in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.

    Image of two pharmacists looking at medications