VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System

03/06/2026

🌟 Veteran Produce Weekly Friday Giveaway! 🌟 Join us every Friday for fresh produce and support! 🍏🥦
Dates:
March 13th: 11 AM - 1 PM
March 20th: 11 AM - 1 PM
March 27th: 11 AM - 1 PM
📍 Location:
Wadsworth Theater
11301 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90073

This weekly food distribution is exclusively for Veterans and not VA employees. Don’t miss out on this opportunity to grab some healthy goodies!

Supported by: Food for Health

03/06/2026

03/06/2026

Exciting news! Dental services are now officially available at our Antelope Valley VA Clinic!

The brand-new dental clinic celebrated its soft opening last week, and Veterans can now schedule appointments with our amazing dental staff, pictured below.

This is the final specialty service to roll out at the new facility, so all are now ready and waiting to see Veterans including physical medicine & rehabilitation, eye care, podiatry, and more. The full menu of services is listed below.

This marks an important milestone as Veterans in this region now have access to the important services they need, closer to home.

03/05/2026

VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System’s Neurology team attended Epilepsy Awareness Day at Disneyland 2025, where Dr. Sunita Dergalust (PharmD, BCPS), Dr. Jennifer Nguyen (PharmD), and Dr. Brittany Young (MD) supported epilepsy awareness within the Veteran community. Dr. Dergalust and Dr. Nguyen led the “Ask the Pharmacist” and Veterans Affairs booths, engaging attendees and providing valuable resources. Dr. Young delivered a lecture titled “Traumatic Brain Injury in Epilepsy,” sharing her expertise with participants.

Pictured: Dr. Nguyen, Neurology Clinical Pharmacist Practitioner, at the “Ask the Pharmacist” and Veterans Affairs booth.

03/05/2026

Clinician burnout can impact patient care. Some healthcare organizations have established the role of Chief Well-being Officers (CWO) to help. VA GLA Researchers studied VA’s CWO pilot program and identified five focus areas for CWOs to support clinicians. This study may help VA find ways to reduce clinician burnout as they treat and care for Veterans. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40877759/

03/05/2026

Yesterday I told the American Legion- it’s a new day at VA. We’re slashing wait times and making it easier for our women Veterans to get the care they need. The mission is simple - Veterans First. Always.

03/05/2026

Pharmaco-equity aims to ensure equitable access to quality medications for all individuals to reduce health disparities. A VA GLA Researcher proposed a framework to measure and monitor the progress of Pharmaco-equity in healthcare organizations. This framework may be a useful resource to help health systems improve equitable access to medications. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11801364/

03/04/2026

Veteran housing construction continues to gain momentum across West LA VA as multiple projects move forward to expand permanent supportive housing and help build a first-of-its-kind community for Veterans.

New drone footage highlights progress happening across campus, including:
• 748 Bonsall Avenue – 38 units underway
• 11400 Patton Avenue – 43 units underway
• 11411 Pershing Avenue – 100 units underway
• 11430 Pershing Avenue – 115 units underway
• 11430 Vandergrift Avenue – 40 units underway

As of March 1, 2025, the campus has 729 permanent supportive housing units completed, with 336 additional units under construction. Each new building brings us closer to ending Veteran homelessness by providing safe, stable housing and supportive services for those who served.

In addition to West LA VA, formerly homeless Veterans are also housed in hundreds of properties across Greater Los Angeles through the HUD-VASH program.

Watch the 4k version on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/

03/04/2026

GI Bill® students: Did you verify your enrollment for February?

All VA education beneficiaries, including Survivors’ and Dependents’ Educational Assistance (Chapter 35) students, must verify their enrollment at the end of each month to receive benefit payments.

Learn more by visiting VA’s Verify School Enrollment webpage at https://www.va.gov/education/verify-school-enrollment/.

03/03/2026

Meet Larry Manzo! Manzo is a 98-year- old WWII Navy Veteran and he is still showing up to serve - just in a different way!

Check out some of the photos from Larry’s life below. In photo number two, Larry Manzo appears alongside the late Navy Veteran and meditation teacher Stephen Islas. They had a friendship remembered fondly by those who knew them both.

“Larry was the grandfather that Stephen never had and Stephen was the grandson Larry never had. So special,” shared Stephen’s widow, Marjorie E. Abrahms. The two spent meaningful time together through the Vets Whole in One nonprofit, forming a bond that touched many lives.

Read the full story: https://bit.ly/GLAstories

03/03/2026

Good communication between doctors and patients is important for providing high-quality care. A VA GLA physician-researcher contributed to a study on communication of physical and mental health among adults with serious illnesses. They found that communication influences health, and better health may lead to more effective communication. This insight may help improve the patient-clinician relationship and improve Veteran health.

Link in Post: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40823338/