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We know our Wyoming Veterans are creative... and that's why we want more of you to get national recognition for that art, just like Wyoming Veteran Deb Zelenak.

2023 National Veterans Creative Arts Competition promotion.

On Tuesday, Nov. 8, our health care system will join with the Cheyenne VA Health Care System and Veterans Benefits Administration to share information about the new PACT Act legislation during a live telephone town hall. The following list is for additional resources on the PACT Act.

Graphic about Veteran Town Hall on the PACT Act.

Sheridan-area bars... we need your help.

Graphic banner to accompany article about Veteran suicide prevention campaign with local Sheridan, Wyoming, bars.

The Sheridan VA Medical Center does NOT have an emergency department, nor do any of the eight community clinics which make up the health care system.

health care workers wheel a patient on a gurney into an emergency room

The Sheridan VA Health Care System will soon offer check-in by phone.

Veteran using smart phone

It has been said that without employees an organization cannot survive and prosper. At the VA Sheridan Healthcare System we employ more than 200 RNs, LPNs, and nursing assistants, and have a need to hire more nursing staff as the demand for Veteran healthcare services has increased.

A group of nurses, medical staff and a prospective applicant

They were pioneers during a time their country needed them most, yet they were also America’s best kept secret until recently. The Women Air Force Service Pilots of World War II paved the way for women in the military today. 100 year old WASP Veteran Nell Bright is the epitome of Upholding Valor.

Nell Bright

Throughout the VA Sheridan Healthcare System, everyone worked tirelessly to care for our Veteran population as the COVID-19 pandemic arrived in the United States.

A Veteran receives a vaccine from a health care worker

Eighty years later he can still hear the sirens wailing from Battleship Row. The sounds are what he remembers most from that day. That, and the fires.

Ken Potts, in Navy in 1941 and in 2021

It was late March and the grip of COVID-19 had frozen the nation. Businesses closed, residents hunkered down, and the world stopped. But for the second time in a year, Eduardo Cardenas was running toward the danger.

Respiratory therapist Eduardo Cardenas and other healthcare professionals wearing masks and working with COVID-19 patients.