Stories

Veterans from VA Salt Lake City Health Care System joined more than 500 participants at the 2025 National Veterans Summer Sports Clinic, held August 23–30 in San Diego, California. The weeklong event introduced Veterans to adaptive activities such as cycling, kayaking, sailing and surfing.

Content Warning: suicidal ideation. If you or someone you know is in crisis, call the national suicide hotline at 988. Press option 1 if you are a Veteran.

VA Salt Lake City Health Care System’s mobile medical unit is part of the Homeless Program’s outreach efforts, delivering care directly to Veterans experiencing homelessness.

VA helped Army Veteran and VA employee Theerawong “Odie” Suksutthirot get back on his feet. Now he sees his work at VA as a way to give back to fellow Veterans.

If you visit the George E. Wahlen VA Medical Center on any given morning, you might spot Rick Silver crisscrossing campus on his way to check tire pressure on a government vehicle before heading to a building to ensure fire extinguishers are up to code.

Library Square in downtown Salt Lake City was lined with tents and volunteers on Friday, July 18, as Veterans experiencing homelessness and other unsheltered people came from all over the city so they could find the resources they need to survive.

The VA Salt Lake City Health Care System (VASLCHCS) is seeking visual and performing art pieces for our upcoming local 2025 Creative Arts Competition.

When Meisha Jensen began working with the Homeless and Justice Clinical Recovery Program at the VA Salt Lake City Health Care System (VASLCHCS), she quickly became a driving force in how the health care system approaches coordinated care for Veterans experiencing homelessness.

June is PTSD Awareness Month, a time to recognize the unseen wounds of trauma and the courage it takes to seek healing.

Drake Slattery, the grandson of a Veteran, doesn’t seem to slow down.