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

  • VA Puget Sound Health Care System successfully attained accreditation from the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) APEx - Accreditation Program for Excellence®. APEx provides external validation that a radiation oncology facility is delivering high-quality patient care.

    VA Puget Sound achieves accreditation for radiation oncology services from ASTRO's APEx - Accreditation Program for Excellence

  • SEATTLE, July 22, 2024–For the fifth year in a row, VA Puget Sound Health Care System received the American Heart Association Association’s Get With The Guidelines® - Stroke Gold Plus and Target: Type 2 Diabetes Honor Roll quality achievement awards.

    VA earns American Heart Association Association’s Get With The Guidelines® - Stroke Gold Plus a quality achievement award

  • This year’s National Veterans Creative Arts Festival drew more than 3,000 Veteran artists -- three from VA Puget Sound Health Care System.

    Award-winning creative art work by local VA Puget Sound Veteran artists.

  • 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.

    Sexual Assault Awareness Month picture with caption finding your path to healing

  • 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.

    100 Years American Lake - Caring for our Nation's Heroes, American Lake March 15, 1924 - March 15, 2024. We honor 100-year-old Veterans...

  • 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.

    Photograph of Deputy Executive Director Susan Perez

  • 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.

    Prescription medication take-back event

  • “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.

    Domestic violence awareness month 2023 graphic

  • 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.

    Photo of artist Jim Anderson

  • 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 brings federal, state and local leaders together to focus on Veteran suicide prevention