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VA is planning for its new EHR from Oracle-Cerner to go live at 13 sites in 2026 — starting with four sites in Michigan in April 2026.
VA announces intent to reorganize the management structure of the Veterans Health Administration (VHA), with the goals of improving health care for Veterans, empowering local hospital directors, eliminating duplicative layers of bureaucracy and ensuring consistent application of VA policies across all department medical facilities.
VA released a request for proposals for new community care contracts that will improve health care choice and quality for Veterans over the next decade.
Women Veterans can now schedule appointments directly with VA gynecology providers without a referral from a primary care provider.
VA has completely eliminated the backlog of Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Department of Veterans Affairs (CHAMPVA) applications, a major VA program that provides health care coverage to over 900,000 qualifying Veteran spouses, dependents, survivors, and caregivers.
VA relieves Veterans of more than $272 million in potential medical bills that accrued after the Biden Administration stopped certain copayment claims processing and collections in early 2023.
VA extends Program of Comprehensive Assistance for Family Caregivers eligibility for certain Veterans and their family caregivers through Sept. 30, 2028.
VA terminates a Biden-Administration mandate to spend $77 million on electric vehicle charging stations at VA facilities.
VA permanently housed 51,936 homeless Veterans across the country in fiscal year 2025.
Backlog of Veterans waiting for VA compensation and pension benefits has dropped by more than 57% since the start of the second Trump Administration.
Potentially thousands of Veterans who were discharged from service by the Biden Administration for refusing the COVID vaccine may regain eligibility for GI Bill education benefits.
"Keeping the promises America has made to its Veterans is the sole purpose of the Department of Veterans Affairs."
Many important VA services have been stopped because of the Democrats' government shutdown.
VA awards $84M in grants to fight Veteran homelessness.
VA dedicates the Southern Utah National Cemetery in Cedar City, Utah.
Department of Veterans Affairs national cemeteries will host a day of service and remembrance to honor victims of the 9/11 attacks on Sept. 11, also known as Patriot Day.
More than three-fourths of Department of Veterans Affairs hospitals that received an Overall Hospital Quality Star Rating earned four-or-five-star ratings as part of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services 2025 hospital quality ratings
More than $818 million in grants were awarded to 235 organizations across the country to help Veterans who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless.
VA guarantees its 29 millionth home loan since the program was created in 1944 — a 19% increase in VA home loan processing this year compared to the same time in 2024.
VA is redirecting tens of millions of dollars in taxpayer funds away from subsidizing federal unions and back to the Veterans, families, caregivers and survivors VA serves.
VA processes more disability benefits compensation & pension ratings claims in a single year than ever before.
Eligible Veterans can now submit and track “mileage-only” travel claims directly from a smartphone or mobile device via the VA Health and Benefits mobile app.
Union contracts for most bargaining-unit employees are terminated by VA.
VA extends community care authorizations for eligible standardized types of care for a year.
VA realigns an additional $800 million this fiscal year for its Non-Recurring Maintenance program to make infrastructure improvements to health care facilities.
VA’s National Cemetery Administration’s Veterans Legacy Program initiative awards more than $2 million in educational and research institutions grants.
VA's new partnership with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services eliminates instances in which both agencies are billed for the same health care episode.
VA will soon propose a rule to extend Program of Comprehensive Assistance for Family Caregivers eligibility for certain Veterans and their family caregivers through Sept. 30, 2028.
VA temporarily expanded burial benefits for certain Veterans, per the Senator Elizabeth Dole 21st Century Veterans Healthcare and Benefits Improvement Act.
