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

  • It's flu season, and it’s now more important than ever to get the flu shot as we continue to battle the COVID-19 pandemic.

    Hands holding up a sign that says Get your flu shot

  • 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