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

  • A WWII Veteran’s family has never seen a formal picture of him in uniform from his service in the Navy. VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System staff recently banded together to accomplish a seemingly impossible and very special good deed for a Veteran and his family.

    U.S. Navy Veteran Mager Ely

  • VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System staff are now training community health care providers to help Vietnam-era Veterans on hospice who may be struggling with PTSD, moral injury or thoughts of suicide.

    Community providers receive VA Pittsburgh training to help Vietnam-era Veterans on hospice who may be struggling with PTSD, moral injury or thoughts of suicide.

  • VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System's new state-of-the-art simulation center serves a critical role in improving Veterans health care.

    Grand opening guests view an emergence delirium simulation.

  • Last week, VA engineers at the Human Engineering Research Laboratories (HERL) participated in North America's most influential 3D printing event in Detroit.

    An engineer retrieves a 3D-printed object from a 3D printer.

  • Swift action taken by VA nurse Karen Brodlo prolonged the life of an elderly woman.

    VA nurse gives family a chance to say goodbye

  • Veterans scheduled for compensation and pension (C&P) exams at VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System's H.J. Heinz III campus can literally breathe a sigh of relief with the addition of same-day pulmonary function tests (PFTs).

    VA Pittsburgh respiratory therapists demonstrate how a pulmonary function test is given.

  • "You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair." -- Old Chinese Proverb

    Photo of a white heart and a placeholder in the sand in the shape of a heart

  • Socializing can provide many benefits to your physical and mental health.

    Photo of three middle aged women, multicultural, laughing together

  • At VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System, an all-volunteer team of experts provides medical and psychological care to transgender Veterans throughout the VISN 4 service area.

    Shown are some members of the VA Pittsburgh Health Care system Interdisciplinary Transgender Treatment Team

  • Who knew a childhood competition of paper basketball among siblings would later inspire a therapeutic game bringing military Veterans together for rehabilitation and stress relief?

    A Veteran shoots a small paper basketball towards a hoop while a referee watches