Stories
Read about what's happening in our VA Salt Lake City health care community.
Our whole community aches as we watch the news out of Afghanistan.
A reflective mini-documentary captures the COVID-19 response by the VA Rocky Mountain Network and explores the path ahead for Veteran health care.
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.
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.
Everyone falls. Even heroes. Chris Hird learned that the hard way. So did the woman that saved him.
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.
As a Marine infantryman, Louie Fuentes fought in some of the Iraq war’s bloodiest battles.
Updated March 26, 2021 - VA is offering COVID-19 vaccines to all Veterans, their spouses, and certain, eligible caregivers. You do not need to be enrolled in VA healthcare to receive the vaccine as prescribed in the new Save Lives Act recently passed by Congress.
A line of anxious Veterans winds down the hall at Salt Lake City VA.
Of the seven men whom Salt Lake City VA’s streets are named after, only one is African American: Vernon Joseph Baker.
