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06/29/2021 04:00 PM EDT

Therapist coaches senior Veteran on arm exercises

Gerofit can include individual and group-based exercises such as balance and strengthening classes. Program may include treadmills, bicycles, elliptical machines, and stair climbers.

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06/29/2021 02:00 PM EDT

Learn about the benefits of a VA Career as an Intermediate Care Technician

Marzell Scott is the first candidate chosen for the VANEEP Scholarship Pilot pathway for ICTs.

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06/29/2021 11:30 AM EDT

Navy Veteran Cristie Remmel is today's Veteran of the day.

Today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Navy Veteran Cristie Remmel, who served as a corpsman for field Marine force during Operation Desert Storm.

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06/29/2021 09:50 AM EDT

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What do I need to know about the Delta variant of COVID-19? You asked, we’re answering.

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06/29/2021 09:00 AM EDT

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The Diffusion Academy brings employees with mature practices together from across VHA IE portfolios to train and support them.

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06/29/2021 08:00 AM EDT

House with handicapped entrance.

VA is announcing awards totaling nearly $800,000 in grants to develop new, Specially Adapted Housing technology for Veterans and service members.

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06/28/2021 08:00 PM EDT

The American Red Cross continues to experience a severe blood shortage that is negatively affecting blood product availability across the country. Donors of all blood types – especially type O and those giving platelets – are urged to make an appointment to give now and help ensure hospital shelves are stocked with blood products over the Fourth of July holiday and beyond.

The American Red Cross continues to experience a severe blood shortage that is negatively affecting blood product availability across the country. Donors of all blood types – especially type O and those giving platelets – are urged to make an appointment to give now and help ensure hospital shelves are stocked with blood products over the Fourth of July holiday and beyond.

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06/28/2021 06:00 PM EDT

Warrant Officer Junior Grade Johnnie Jones

It’s been 77 years and Johnnie Jones still sees the German sniper who tried to kill him as he came ashore on Omaha Beach for D-Day. “I remember it all,” he said. “Sometimes reminiscing is a terrible thing. I close my eyes at night and still see him. I lay down at night and as soon as I close my eyes, I relive the whole D-Day invasion.” Jones almost never made it to the beachhead that day. His ship hit a mine and he was blown from the second deck to the first. The explosion, “blew me sky high into …

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06/28/2021 04:00 PM EDT

Brain Break for Live Whole Health

If sitting meditation is not for you, yet you want the benefits that come from these practices, you may want to try a gentle movement practice such as “Brain Break.”

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06/28/2021 03:00 PM EDT

Heat Wave headline on a newspaper.

Statistics show that heat kills more people, on average, than any other weather-related hazard. Please be mindful of you and your loved one’s safety (that includes the 4-legged members of your family).

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