VA Healthcare–VISN 4 is a fully integrated network of 9 VA campuses, 45 outpatient clinics, 1 mobile clinic, and 16 vet centers covering 83 counties in Pennsylvania and Delaware and parts of Ohio, West Virginia, New York and New Jersey. In fiscal year 2022, VISN 4 served 321,366 patients from across… Read More »About VA Healthcare-Map of VISN 4 (Updated January 2023)
The next bi-monthly Membership Meeting of the Keystone Paralyzed Veterans of America will be on Saturday, 11 February 2023. The meeting will be available to members via Zoom using the link below. The link will go live at 12:30 p.m., and President Mark Rosensteel will call the meeting to order at 12:45 p.m.
The annual Air Rifle Clinic and Competition will resume in April 2023 at the Encompass Healthcare (formerly HealthSouth Harmarville) rehabilitation hospital at 320 Guys Run Road, Pittsburgh PA 15238 (Allegheny County, Pa.) for paralyzed veterans and other disabled persons. The clinic will be held Saturday, 22 April, and the competition… Read More »Air Rifle Clinic and Competition in Pennsylvania – April 22&23 2023
988, the three-digit number used to access both the National Suicide Hotline and Veterans Crisis Line, is currently non-operational. Veterans and others are advised to dial the Veterans Crisis Line directly, at 877-267-6030, or call any VA facility and press 7 to reach the Veterans Crisis Line. VCL text messaging (838255) and Live Chat are still… Read More »988 Veterans Crisis Line Outage
The Department of Veterans Affairs established 1-800-MyVA411 (1-800-698-2411) in 2020 to help Veterans, their family members, caregivers, and survivors understand and access the broad spectrum of VA benefits and services. VA’s previous information number, 1-844-MyVA311, was retired at that time. Since that transition, MyVA311 has been repurposed by a non-federal entity claiming… Read More »Retired VA phone number putting Veterans’ information at risk
We are pleased to share the latest issue of Vision for Excellence. In this issue, we spotlight the wide array of inpatient and ambulatory surgical procedures available in VISN 4, and in particular, our fully accredited bariatric surgery program in Pittsburgh and Wilkes-Barre. We also provide an update on the… Read More »Vision for Excellence (Nov 2022)
The US Patent and Trademark Office released a new educational website to provide support to K-12 teachers and students to be innovators, creators, and inventors. As a part of the site is a game to match inventors to inventions that leads to more info.
Major auto manufacturers have electric vehicles, including cars, trucks, and vans ready for purchase and order, but you might wonder if they can be modified to make them accessible.
