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Read about what's happening in our VA Salt Lake City health care community.

  • Fisher House is a home away from home for Veterans’ families. They experience comfort in numbers and compassion in complete strangers bound together by extraordinary circumstances. In this week’s Upholding Valor – this is the Fisher House story.

    Fisher House

  • The VA Salt Lake City Healthcare System goes beyond traditional healthcare to improve the lives of Veterans. In this episode of Upholding Valor a Veteran talks about his weight loss transformation and his journey to peace of mind, body and soul.

    Screen grab showing scale and apple

  • The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended on Aug. 13 a third dose of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines for immunocompromised Americans. It has now expanded that recommendation to all Americans, who received either of those vaccines.

    A Veteran receives a COVID-19 vaccination from a VA health care worker

  • VA always needs good volunteers to better serve our Veterans. We need you! Want to serve your country’s heroes? Find out how in this episode of Upholding Valor.

    Upholding Valor podcast - Volunteer Services

  • Our whole community aches as we watch the news out of Afghanistan.

    Afghanistan Campaign medal and ribbon

  • A reflective mini-documentary captures the COVID-19 response by the VA Rocky Mountain Network and explores the path ahead for Veteran health care.

    Screen grab from Learning from the past video - Ralph T. Gigliotti, VISN 19 network director

  • PTSD is something roughly 20 percent of Veterans deal with after service or a long combat deployment. VA understands and has the experts to make a difference in Veterans lives. Don’t suffer in silence. PTSD is treatable.

    Screen grab of Upholding Valor on PTSD

  • The Salt Lake City VA Health Care System is enrolling Veterans into the Million Veteran Program, a national research program that studies how differences in genes, lifestyle and military experiences affect Veterans' health and illnesses.

    Woman Veteran for Million Veterans Program - The future of medicine is in your genes

  • Everyone falls. Even heroes. Chris Hird learned that the hard way. So did the woman that saved him.

    Chris Hird

  • Scientists and social workers have long known that homeless Veterans have more adverse health conditions, visit the hospital more, and have longer, more expensive stays. But what they didn’t know was that improving a Veteran’s housing also improves their health.

    Richard E. Nelson