Veteran's Health
Agent Orange Health Effects and Vietnam Veterans
Information on health issues for Vietnam veterans exposed to the herbicide Agent Orange during the Vietnam War. This site features current and back issues of VA's publication Agent Orange Review, and current issues of Agent Orange Fact Sheets, other publications, and answers to frequently asked questions. These publications can be searched by key-word or information on specific health concerns, Vietnam veterans and Agent Orange compensation policy developments, and other specific Vietnam War and Agent Orange activities.
Blind Rehabilitation Services
This service includes adjustment to blindness counseling, patient and family education, benefit analysis, comprehensive residential inpatient training, outpatient rehabilitation services, the provision of assistive technology, and research.
Cancer Program
The VA cancer program ensures that users of the veterans health care system have easy access to consistently high quality cancer prevention, detection, and treatment services. Its Web site offers cancer facts, information about care, a list of VHA designated comprehensive cancer centers, and the VA's national cancer strategy
Cardiac Surgery Consultants Committee
Provides information on the criteria and standards for cardiac care and has an advisory committee on policy issues surrounding cardiac surgery.
Center for Women Veterans
While the Center for Women Veterans is not part of VHA, health care is one of it critical components. The Center's website includes information on Women Veterans' Comprehensive Health Centers, sexual trauma counseling, the VA Mammography Office, and how to apply for benefits.
Cold Injury
Study this material to learn more about long-term effects of cold injury.
Diabetes Program
The Web site for the Diabetes Program provides clinical guidelines, fact sheets, links to Web sites, and other information concerning the cost and management of diabetes.
Gulf War Veterans' Health
Information on health issues for veterans who served in the Gulf War. This site features current and back issues of VA's publication Gulf War Review, other publications, and answers to frequently asked questions. These publications can be searched by key-word for information on specific health concerns, Gulf War environmental exposures, Gulf War veteran compensation policy, research on Gulf War health, or other specific Gulf War activities.
Health Care Programs for Elderly Veterans
Geriatrics Strategic Healthcare website provides information about hospice care, home based primary care, geriatric evaluation and management, domiciliary care, Alzheimer's/dementia program, adult day health care, and respite care.
HIV/AIDS Program
The program disseminates a biweekly newsletter, publicizes new items available on the Internet, announces AIDS Service activities, and distributes other relevant HIV/AIDS information.
Kidney Diseases Program
The VA kidney diseases program ensures that users of the veterans health care system have easy access to consistently high quality renal diseases prevention, detection, and treatment services. Its Web site offers facts, information about care, a list of VHA dialysis centers, and the VA's clinical practice guidelines.
Mental Health
Specialty areas include Psychiatry, Psychology, and Readjustment Counseling. (Although administratively separate, the Readjustment Counseling Service is clinically aligned with Mental Health.)
Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Centers (MIRECC)
Generating new knowledge about the causes and treatments of mental disorders, appling new findings to model clinical programs, and widely disseminating new findings through education to improve the quality of veterans' lives and their daily functioning in their recovering from mental illness.
National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
The center carries out a broad range of multidisciplinary activities in research, education, and training to understand, diagnose, and treat PTSD. The Web site targets information to different groups, such as veterans and their families, women, clinicians, researchers, journalists, librarians, and students.
National Center Patient Safety
The National Center for Patient Safety (NCPS) embodies the Department of Veterans Affairs' (VA) uncompromising commitment to reducing and preventing adverse medical events while enhancing the care given our patients. The NCPS represents a unified and cohesive patient safety program, with active participation by all of the 172 VA hospitals supported by dedicated patient safety managers
Nursing
The Office of Nursing Services functions as a Center for Nursing Leadership by providing the linkages and opportunities for the enhancement of innovation and preservation of the caring dimension across the spectrum of Nursing Service delivery.
Recreational Therapy Service
Recreation Therapy provides quality clinical treatment interventions for veterans and other beneficiaries. Some of its programs include recreation/creative arts therapy, National Veterans Creative Arts Festival, Very Special Arts Program, National Veterans Wheelchair Games, National Disabled Veterans Winter Sports Clinic, National Veterans Golden Age Games, and the Training-Exposure-Experience (T.E.E.) Golf Tournament.
Social Work
VA Social Work's mission is to eliminate psychosocial complications as significant barriers to healthcare interventions for veterans and families. This is accomplished by developing and maintaining integrated, quality programs in patient care, research, education and prevention.
Information Obtained From National Institute Of Health