VA, Monster Partner for Veteran Job Seekers

WASHINGTON - In a new plan to help veterans find jobs, the Department of Veterans Affairs has partnered with Monster Government Solutions, a division of Monster Worldwide, Inc., a company that markets online employment services to employers and job seekers.

VA Names New South Carolina National Cemetery

WASHINGTON - The Department of Veterans Affairs has named the national cemetery to be built near Columbia, S.C., as the 'Fort Jackson National Cemetery.' VA also awarded a $2.53 million construction contract for the initial phase of development to International Public Works, LLC, of North Charleston.

VA Rolling Out Suicide Hotline Ads in DC

WASHINGTON - Veterans and other residents of metropolitan Washington, D.C., have begun seeing outreach information on buses and inside subway cars about the suicide prevention hotline of the Department of Veterans Affairs.

VA Announces New Nursing Academy Sites

WASHINGTON -- To provide compassionate, highly-trained nurses to serve the health care needs of the nation's veterans, the Department of Veterans Affairs is establishing new partnerships with seven of the country's finest nursing schools. The partnerships will bring to 10 the number of collaborations between the Department and nursing schools under the VA Nursing Academy.

VA Initiates New Business Improvement Program

WASHINGTON - To upgrade its financial and asset management systems, the Department of Veterans Affairs announced two requests for proposals for the Financial and Logistics Integrated Technology Enterprise Program.

VA Delivering Care ‘Outside the Box’

WASHINGTON - Using the latest high tech devices as well as the energy of wind and waves, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is helping veterans make health care and health maintenance parts of their everyday routine -- a story which is a highlight of the August edition of 'The American Veteran,' the Department's monthly half-hour news magazine.

VA Opening Rural Health Resource Centers

WASHINGTON -- The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) will open three Veterans Rural Health Resource Centers on Oct. 1 to better understand rural health issues for veterans and develop special practices and products to implement across the country.

World’s Largest Annual Sporting Event for Senior Veterans Begins

WASHINGTON - More than 700 veterans from across the country have traveled to Indianapolis to compete in the largest sports and recreational competition for senior veterans in the world - the 22nd National Veterans Golden Age Games -- which begins Aug. 20.

VA’s National PTSD Center Deputy Honored

WASHINGTON -- Dr. Paula Schnurr, deputy executive director for VA's National Center for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), received the 3rd annual Ladies Home Journal 'Health Breakthrough Award' for her work with PTSD and women veterans.

VA Helps Vets Reengage with Life

WASHINGTON - From the laboratory to open air, making medical and mental miracles are the focus of the July edition of 'The American Veteran,' the monthly half-hour news magazine from the Department of Veterans Affairs.