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News releases for VA Houston Health Care. MARCH 27, 2025 Houston National Cemetery will hold a Vietnam War 50th Anniversary Commemoration Ceremony on March 28th to thank and honor Veterans

of the Vietnam War. FEBRUARY 21, 2025 The National Kidney Foundation (NKF) has awarded Sankar Dass Navaneethan, MD, MS, MPH, with the prestigious Garabed Eknoyan Award. DECEMBER 17, 2024

Bhavika Kaul, MD, MAS, of HSR’s Center for Innovations in Quality, Effectiveness and Safety (IQuESt), has been selected as an Oscar Auerbach Visiting Scholar with VA’s War Related Illness

and Injury Center. NOVEMBER 14, 2024 The Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center is proud to announce the selection of a site location for the future Beaumont VA Outpatient Clinic. JUNE 25,

2024 The Disabled American Veterans (DAV) Department of Texas awarded Army Veteran and Houston VA Transition Patient Advocate Cornelius Blackshear as their Disabled Veteran of the Year

during their annual state convention on June 21. JUNE 05, 2024 This Saturday, June 8th, all area military Veterans are invited to a special VA claims and enrollment resource fair at the

Beaumont VA Outpatient Clinic. MAY 21, 2024 Today, the Department of Veterans Affairs expects to grant its 1 millionth PACT Act-related disability compensation claims to Veterans and

survivors since President Biden signed the bill into law on Aug. 10, 2022 – including 110,629 claims to Veterans and survivors in Texas. MAY 09, 2024 The Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center

in Houston recently received the "LGBTQ+ Healthcare Equality High Performer" designation in the Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s 16th-anniversary edition of the Healthcare

Equality Index (HEI). APRIL 16, 2024 The Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center recently became the first VA in the nation to receive certification from DNV as a Comprehensive Stroke Center,

reflecting the highest level of competence for the treatment of serious stroke events. APRIL 02, 2024 A new study, led by a researcher at the Houston VA and published in the Journal of Sleep

Research, sheds light on the intricate relationship between women’s menstrual cycles, emotions and sleep patterns.