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Minneapolis VA Health Care System top stories.

  • Since 1925, VA Research and Development programs have been discovering new ways to treat disease and improve the lives of Veterans through health care discovery and innovation.

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  • The Minneapolis VA Health Care System Volunteer of the Month in May is Patti Anderson. If you’ve seen Liberty, the patriotic scarf-wearing Siberian Husky, and her handler around the medical center, you’ve met Patti.

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  • “It's important to create safe spaces for Women Veterans because they have historically felt marginalized.”

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  • In honor of ALS Awareness Month, the Minneapolis VA Health Care System ALS Center of Excellence hosted its inaugural Resource and Education Fair for Veterans with ALS, their family, and Caregivers.

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  • 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."

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