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  • Salisbury VA Health Care System is proud to recognize the hard work, sacrifice, dedication, and excellence of its supervisor, clinical, and non-clinical employees of the year for fiscal year 2025.

    Three female employees of the year, each with a flag behind them.

  • In life, challenges are not a matter of if, but when. The real question is: how will we rise to meet them? Many believe the making of an individual’s grit, as well as how they measure grace, is formed in those trying times.

    Edna J. Curry poses for a group photo with colleagues after receiving her award.

  • Every so often, we all need some encouragement – a pat on the back, a warm smile, a trusted, healthy source of comfort or inspiration we can turn to during life’s trying moments. For U.S. Air Force Veteran Andre Long, 49, he found that and more in VA health care.

    U.S. Air Force Veteran Andre Long poses for a portrait with his VA care team at the Kernersville VA Health Care Center in Kernersville, NC.

  • There is no price to put on a life of service and sacrifice, particularly for one’s country.

    Chaplain Angela C. Peterkin, a chaplain educator with the Salisbury VA Health Care System, sings the national anthem.

  • Democracy, voting, elections, and diplomacy have defined our nation’s core ideals and foundation. However, there’s a good chance you didn’t expect to hear them used when discussing everyday resident Veterans in a VA Community Living Center (CLC).

    Veteran residents at the Carolina Pride Community Living Center pose for a photo.

  • For those diagnosed with diabetes, managing weight, physical fitness, and daily diet can be an overwhelming task.

    U.S. Army Veteran Gloria Gardner stands with Salisbury VA Medical Center, Charlotte Health Care Center (HCC) Endocrine clinic staff.

  • How often do you consider what it takes to make the human body move? From simply driving to work, to taking a shower, or going for an evening stroll, most of us don’t think twice about our daily movements and what it takes to complete those actions.

    U.S. Army Veteran Brian Miller poses for a photo.

  • Salisbury VA Health Care System is proud to recognize the hard work, dedication, and excellence of its supervisor, clinical, and non-clinical employees of the year for fiscal year 2024.

    Salisbury VA Employees of the Year for 2024 pose for a photo.

  • Service members transitioning from an active status are often relieved to grab their newly signed DD-214, jump in their cars, and exit their installation’s main gate for what may be the last time.

    U.S. Airmen with the 145th Airlift Wing, North Carolina Air National Guard, attend a Veteran benefits educational presentation

  • In summer 2024, the Salisbury VA surgery service opened its new hybrid interventional operating room (OR) suite, which supports providers with new operating equipment to take Veteran care to the next level and provide the most comprehensive surgical continuum of care at VA.

    Surgery staff gather around the new Salisbury VA Medical Center's hybrid operating room.