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Read about what's happening in our VA Northeast Ohio health care community.

  • VA Northeast Ohio Healthcare System Chaplain Nancy Lueschen has been providing spiritual healing programs within the Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center for almost 6 years and has been steadily discovering new ways to help female veterans.

    Lisa Edwards, Army Veteran and Collaborative Art mural program participant points to a panel she created.

  • During a breast procedure, patients are often required to stand and maintain uncomfortable positions for the mammography team to successfully perform the procedure.

    Raychel Testa, Frank Zitko and Natalie Mandel display their modified mammography chair design.

  • Cleveland, OH – Today VA Northeast Ohio Healthcare System announced that Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center received a 5-star rating from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). This is the first time CMS has included VA facilities in their annual Overall Hospital Quality Star Ratings.

    VA Northeast Ohio Healthcare System is proud to be Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Five Star Rated for Quality Measures.

  • Disaster Simulation Brings Together Multiple Local, Federal Organizations

    VA Northeast Ohio Healthcare System, in partnership with VA Office of Emergency Management recently led a National Disaster Medical System (NDMS) Exercise with multiple partners in the community, June 28.

  • WASHINGTON — Today, the Department of Veterans Affairs announced that it has relaxed the masking requirement at VA medical facilities. VA facilities will no longer universally require masks in most clinical areas.

    VA relaxes masking at health care facilities

  • Did you know that the U.S. Government dispatched 3,500 Army troops onto Washington D.C. streets under leadership of General Douglas MacArthur to drive off an assembled ‘army’ of WWI Veteran demonstrators?

    "Bonus Marchers" and police battle in Washington, D.C. The marchers came to Washington, D.C., to demand their veterans "bonus" payment early from Congress.

  • In 2010, Marine Corporal Todd Nicely became just the second service member to survive devastating battlefield injuries to all his limbs.

    Todd Nicely drives a car to demonstrate his skills and ability to safely negotiate turns, and use braking and acceleration with the new equipment that will be fitted into his truck back home in St. Louis.

  • Cleveland VA Medical Center, Case Western Reserve University Researchers Get Closer to Restoring Feeling and Functionality

    CBS News recently highlighted important prosthetic limb research being conducted at the Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center in conjunction with Case Western Reserve University.

  • In 1982, nearly 40 years after the first group of Inhalation Therapists (now known as Respiratory Therapists) started working, President Ronald Reagan issued a proclamation dedicating National Respiratory Care Week. Today Respiratory Care Week is held the last full week in October.

    Two Respiratory Therapists performing a procedure

  • In 2017 medical professionals from the Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center developed a Structural Heart program. By 2019 construction on two state-of-the art hybrid operating rooms was completed.

    U.S. Air Force Veteran, Perry Fennell (left) with Noah Rosenthal, MD- Cardiologist and Director of the Cardiac CathLab (right)