VHA and the Jefferson School of Population Health in Philadelphia have entered into an agreement in October to jointly create, market and present professional development programs and conferences on ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

Aiming to increase care access, the national Primary Care–Mental Health Integration (PC-MHI) initiative of the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) embedded specialists, care managers, or both in ...

A pre-visit plan is also required, which will include a list of local VHA homeless programs, a schedule of meetings with individual program staff, and a preliminary list of available competitive ...

Amid the continuing debate over whether there is sufficient evidence to support the widespread use of low-dose CT (LDCT) lung cancer screening, the Veteran's Health Administration has launched a ...

Uncoordinated multisystem use is problematic for Veterans Health Administration (VHA) patients with dementia. The Partners in Dementia Care intervention is successful in changing the pattern of VHA ...

An estimated 90,000 people die in the U.S. each year because of hospital-acquired infections. In addition, two million hospital-acquired infection cases add between $7 billion and $30 billion to the ...

Doctors with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs still can't recommend medical marijuana, but they are being encouraged to talk more about it with military veterans. That's what a new V.A. policy ...

There’s some good news for veterans in states with legal medical marijuana programs who rely on the sticky green herb and its various distillations for treatment: the Department of Veterans Affairs ...

Musician First Class Ernie Encinas talks with a patient at the Carl T. Hayden VA Hospital in Phoenix, Arizona, after a concert given by the Destroyers, the rock ensemble of the US Navy Band Southwest.