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  • Veterans enrolled in VA health care may get a free flu shot at their nearest VA health care facility.

    Man with tattoos gets a vaccine from a nurse.
  • In a novel approach to healing, the VA San Diego Healthcare System is introducing a weekly sound therapy intervention to its Experiential and Recreation Therapy Program, offering Veterans a transformative experience to rejuvenate both mind and body.

    Red, electric candles and green and blue sound bowls glow in a darkened therapy room.
  • VA San Diego Healthcare System participated in Patient Experience (PX) Week

    VA San Diego Employees Celebrating our Veteran Patients.
  • Three of the nation's 61 living Medal of Honor recipients call San Diego and the VA San Diego Healthcare System home.

    Medal of Honor recipients and VA leaders
  • Changing Lives, One Veteran at a Time

    Veteran Leon Huynh
  • Veteran hearts ‘overwhelmed with joy;’ VA San Diego Holiday Care & Share

    Care and Share employee participants
  • VA San Diego Healthcare System received a five-star rating from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Overall Hospital Quality Star Ratings. This is the second year in a row that VA San Diego received a five-star rating from CMS.

    exterior building of VA San Diego Healthcare System.
  • Kim Kobayashi-Elliott, a recreational therapist in the Spinal Cord Injury Unit at the San Diego VA Medical Center, has been a source of support and inspiration for countless Veterans navigating life after injury.

    female wearing ball cap
  • The VA Supportive Housing (VASH) program focuses on finding housing for homeless Veterans. VASH just reached a milestone steady-state of housing 2,000 Veterans with housing vouchers at one time.

    VA San Diego’s Supportive Housing Team along with many community partners who came together to reach this milestone.
  • VA Biomedical Laboratory Research and Development Program Awards VA San Diego Scientist.

    VA Scientist in Lab