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VA's Top Priorities
Secretary of Veterans Affairs Douglas A. Collins outlined his key focus areas for the VA. Those priorities—including ensuring timely access to care, putting Veterans at the center of everything VA does, preventing Veteran suicide and ending Veteran homelessness—are at the heart of VHA’s mission to care for Veterans, their families, caregivers and survivors.
Key Focus Areas:
- Deliver timely access to care and benefits for every eligible Veteran, family member, caregiver and survivor.
- Put Veterans at the center of everything VA does, focusing relentlessly on customer service and convenience.
- Challenge the status quo in order to find new and better ways of helping VA beneficiaries.
- Celebrate the vast majority of VA employees who do a great job every day and hold employees accountable when they fall short of the mission.
- Provide Veterans with the health care choices they have earned while maintaining and improving VA’s direct health care capabilities.
- Do a better job reaching Veterans at risk of homelessness or suicide – especially those who have had no contact with VA.
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GRECCs
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Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinical Centers (GRECCs)
The
Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinical Centers (GRECCs)
program, which are VA centers for aging health, will celebrate 50 years of excellence in 2025. GRECC was set up by Congress in 1975. Now, there are 20 programs in VA medical centers nationwide, each linked to a major research university.
GRECCs
are like engines for discovering new things, coming up with new ideas, and putting them into practice. They:
- Do research on aging and elderly care.
- Teach and train current and future experts in elderly care.
- Create, test, and spread new ways to improve health care for older Veterans.
GRECCs
were created when aging became a special area of scientific study, around the same time the National Institute on Aging started. The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) and Congress thought these centers were needed to help with the unique health care needs of growing numbers of older Veterans after WWII.
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Prevention
Infection-Don't Pass It On
What you can do to reduce the spread of infection
Avoid close contact with people who are sick.
Wash your hands
often with soap and water, especially after you cough or sneeze. Alcohol-based hand cleaners are also effective.
Avoid touching your eyes, nose or mouth.
Stay home when you are sick and limit contact with others.
Cover your nose and mouth with a tissue when coughing or sneezing. Throw the tissue in the trash after you use it.
Get your seasonal flu shot
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Recreation Therapy
Recreation therapy is a treatment service designed to restore, remediate and rehabilitate a Veteran’s level of functioning and independence in life activities, promote health and wellness, and reduce or eliminate the activity limitations or restrictions caused by an illness or disabling condition.
Read about how
Army Veteran Michael Martell
trains for sled hockey at the
National Disabled Veterans Winter Sports Clinic
, - a program of
VA’s Office of National Veterans Sports Programs and Special Events
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Partnerships with adaptive sports programs in local communities and at the national level have led to successes and improved the awareness of
National Veterans Sports Programs and Special Events
and clinics such as the
Golden Age Games
, and the
National Creative Arts Festival.
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PCS service areas/programs and more than 1,000 employees whose dedication and commitment to excellence can be seen in their work on behalf of Veterans each and every day.
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