Stories | VA Minneapolis Health Care

Area VA mental health professionals took a new approach to normalizing mental health this month when Local Recovery Coordinators from the VA Midwest Health Care Network offered a series of virtual events every single weekday of May.

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For World No Tobacco Day, discover how VA helps Veterans stop smoking, dipping, and chewing tobacco.

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"This sharing can be deeply healing and therapeutic, as it fosters a deeper understanding of one another and creates a sense of belonging."

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The need for organ donors is starkly evident: every day in the U.S. 17 people die while waiting on life-saving transplants.

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She was up early getting ready and styling her hair as she did every morning, but this wasn’t like every morning, this was surgery day. “Today is my dream come true, finally,” said Chanin Reese.

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"That evening, they were prepping me for the surgery. I know someone had to pass away to extend my life. It's hard to even guess what I would say to that person, or his family. It's a gift."

Minneapolis VA hosted three German Traveling Fellows in February.

The German Fellow Team included Magnus Kalff, MD, Lorena Klingebiel, CPO & MA and Victor Alexander Hoursch, MD

No snow in Minnesota? No skiing? No way – we adapt!

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"I don't use the word life-changing very often, but this device has opened up areas in my life that were completely closed. I can walk again, I can hug my loved one’s heart-to-heart, and it really has enhanced my day-to-day life."

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“It’s the right thing to do. If it’s going to help one person, it’s worth it. It’s worth my time, it’s worth everything.”