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VA New Jersey health care top stories.

  • Our remarkable kidneys are often taken for granted until there’s a problem. Even then, the problem can go unnoticed. A person may live day-to-day feeling fine then are shocked to learn they have chronic kidney disease (CKD).

  • The VA NJ Health Care System attended the Orange NJ Junior ROTC Change of Command Ceremony held at Bell Stadium in Orange

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  • Honoring life, connecting with others, bringing awareness to mental health, exercise, and suicide prevention through fitness communities.

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  • Celebrating 20 years of connecting Veterans to healthcare! This Veterans Day marks My HealtheVet’s 20th anniversary. As VA’s online patient portal, My HealtheVet is a key part of VA care.

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  • In recognition of suicide prevention and awareness month, the coalition hosted its third interfaith Seminar at the Greater Mount Zion AME Church in Trenton, New Jersey.

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  • VA New Jersey Healthcare System welcomed its inaugural cohort of VHA Innovators Network Spark-Seed-Spread Innovation Investment and Accelerator Program Investees this week.

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  • Leveraging the power of the VHA Innovators Network (iNET), VA New Jersey Healthcare System (VANJHCS) has partnered with Xander, a small company specializing in smart captioning glasses, to test and refine their groundbreaking wearable technology.

    Two Veterans provide feedback on Xander’s Smart Captioning glasses during the prototyping design session.

  • NJ SOS Veteran Stakeholders group and Catholic Charities, Diocese of Paterson partnered with Assemblywoman Cleopatra Tucker and Newark Councilwoman at Large, Reverend Louise Scott-Rountree to host its 2nd Interfaith Suicide Awareness Seminar in the Good Neighbor Baptist Church in Newark, New Jersey

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  • Starting on January 17, Veterans in suicidal crisis can go to any health care facility, at VA or in the community, for free emergency health care.