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Read about what's happening in our VA Puget Sound health care community.
Sexual Assault Awareness Month: Finding your path to healing
With the message “We believe you, and we believe in you,” VA Puget Sound Health Care System is reaching out to survivors and their families, friends and supporters throughout Sexual Assault Awareness Month this April.
Keep unused medications out of our lakes, streams and the wrong hands by participating in VA Puget Sound’s Rx Take-Back Event
To assist Veterans and local community to dispose of unused or expired prescriptions or over-the-counter drugs, VA Puget Sound Health Care System is hosting Rx Take-Back Events on April 26, 2024 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., at its main campuses in Seattle and Lakewood, Washington.
VA Puget Sound to honor 100-year-old veterans at 100th Anniversary of its American Lake campus
VA Puget Sound Health Care System will be honoring local 100-year-old, WWII veterans (nine are confirmed) to mark the first patients transferred to its American Lake hospital March 15, 1924. The celebration is VA Puget Sound’s largest gathering of centenarian veterans in its history.
VA Puget Sound new deputy executive director brings more than 30 years of leadership and expertise
The Department of Veterans Affairs is pleased to announce the appointment of Susan Perez as the new deputy executive director of VA Puget Sound Health Care System.
Keep unused medications out of our lakes, our streams and the wrong hands by participating in VA Puget Sound’s Rx Take-Back Event
As part of the Department of Veterans Affairs nationwide effort to assist Veterans and local community to dispose of unused or expired prescriptions or over-the-counter drugs, VA Puget Sound Health Care System is having a Rx Take-Back Event October 27, 2023 at its Seattle and American Lake campuses.
October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month: Stand up against sexual harassment, sexual assault and intimate partner violence
“We, VA Puget Sound Health Care System, pledge to never commit, excuse or stay silent about sexual harassment, sexual assault, or domestic violence against others,” is the White Ribbon VA pledge being taken by employees throughout VA Puget Sound across Western Washington.
VA Puget Sound’s new art gallery features work from local Veterans using art to heal
September is Suicide Prevention Month. One of the many ways VA Puget Sound Health Care System is raising awareness is the opening its Veterans Art Gallery.
VA Puget Sound brings federal, state and local leaders together to focus on Veteran suicide prevention
The suicide rate among Veterans in 2019 was 52 percent higher than non-Veteran adults in the U.S., according to the 2022 National Veteran Suicide Prevention Annual Report (https://www.mentalhealth.va.gov/about/data-reporting/suicide-prevention-data.asp).
VA Puget Sound wants community to know that suicide is preventable!
In 2015, the shocking statistic of 22 Veteran suicides each day was cited across the nation. And Veterans continue to be at higher risk for suicide compared to the general population.
BSA Troop 647 donates computer resource center for visiting Veterans and families
Boy Scouts of America Troop 647 (Mercer Island) were onsite at VA Puget Sound Health Care System’s Seattle Campus July 29, creating a computer resource center for Veterans and their families to use while they are visiting the facility.
