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March 31, 2025

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs today announced the complete list of additional medical facilities at which it will deploy the Federal Electronic Health Record system in 2026 under its accelerated deployment schedule.

March 19, 2025

WILMINGTON, Del. — A free event celebrating the Wilmington VA Medical Center’s 75th Anniversary will take place at the Wilmington VA Medical Center, 1601 Kirkwood Hwy. Wilmington, DE 19805, May 3, 2025, from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.

March 17, 2025

In response to President Trump’s Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government executive order, VA announced today that it will phase out medical treatments for gender dysphoria.

March 07, 2025

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs announced today it will complete deployment of the Federal Electronic Health Record system at nine additional medical facilities, bringing the total to go live in 2026 to 13, with complete deployment of the EHR at all VA medical facilities as early as 2031.

March 06, 2025

The days of kicking the can down the road are over. We owe America’s Veterans solutions!

March 05, 2025

Mission-critical contracts are exempt from the reductions, which will enable VA to redirect more than $900 million to health care, benefits and services for VA beneficiaries. Today’s announcement is the first step in a comprehensive audit of VA’s nearly 90,000 contracts worth more than $67 billion.

February 25, 2025

The Department of Veterans Affairs announced today it has processed more than a million disability claims in Fiscal Year 2025, reaching the milestone nearly two weeks faster than it did in FY24.

February 25, 2025

Mission-critical positions are exempt from the reductions, which will enable VA to redirect over $83 million annually to health care, benefits and services for VA beneficiaries.

February 14, 2025

Mission-critical positions are exempt from the reductions, which will enable VA to redirect over $98 million annually to health care, benefits and services for VA beneficiaries.

February 05, 2025

It is my life’s honor to serve America’s Veterans as secretary of Veterans Affairs, and I thank President Donald J. Trump as well as the U.S. Senate for their confidence in me.