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In 2025, you’ll need to start using a Login.gov or ID.me account to sign in to VA websites and apps, including My HealtheVet.

VA Loma Linda Healthcare System is providing free seasonal flu shots to eligible Veterans now through May 1, 2025.

Veteran and daughter build a snow man. Tis the season to be flu free. Fight Flu, get your flu shot

VA Loma Linda Healthcare System launched a new digital wayfinding service to help Veterans navigate Jerry L. Pettis Memorial Veterans' Hospital at 11201 Benton St. in Loma Linda, Calif.

woman uses digital wayfinding kiosk at VA Loma Linda

VA Loma Linda’s Center for Development and Civic Engagement (CDCE) Team received a $50,000 donation from Stater Bros. at the Jerry L. Pettis Memorial Veterans' Hospital October 21 in support of VA’s National Veterans Golden Age Games.

Jerry L. Pettis Memorial Veterans Hospital staff and Stater Bros. representatives in front of the hospital.

Over 500 athletes competed in the 43rd National Veterans Wheelchair Games in New Orleans July 25-30. This year's event featured participants from 24 to 89 years old, showcasing the diverse age range of Veteran athletes.

43rd National Veterans Wheelchair Games athlete Al Marconi poses with two gold medals and one silver.

William Ahlborn was living on his parents’ farm near Riverside, California when he was drafted into the Army in 1943. He was only 18 years old.

William and Paula Ahlborn speak to a member of VA Loma Linda Healthcare System's ELT.

VA Loma Linda Healthcare System is providing free seasonal flu shots to eligible Veterans September 1, 2023, through March 31, 2024.

March Air Reserve Base personnel partnered with VA Loma Linda healthcare teams in critical care areas such as the emergency department and intensive care unit to recertify certain skills such as suturing, orthopedic splinting and more at Jerry L. Pettis Memorial Veterans’ Hospital last week.

Air Force Master Sgt. Tara Marino draws blood from a patient at Jerry L. Pettis Memorial Veterans’ Hospital in Loma Linda, California, August 16, 2023. Marino was one of three Air Force Reservists that drilled at the hospital to recertify medical skills such as drawing blood, suturing and orthopedic splinting. (Photo by Public Affairs Specialist Roger Deguzman)

Eighty-six thousand four hundred — the average number of heart beats in a twenty-four hour period. Two million, eight hundred fifty thousand — the average number of heart beats our cardiology team is responsible for in that same twenty-four hour period.

VA Loma Linda Healthcare System’s women Veteran care team hosted an open house at the Women's Health Center March 31.

VA Loma Linda leadership cut ribbon at Women's Health Center open house.