The Albany Minute for Veterans

Continuing with the theme of March is Social worker month, we interviewed Michelle Chavarria and Jennifer Stilleto-Smith, the Social workers for our Community Engagement and Partnership team on the role social workers play role in the Mission of serving Veterans, and on their new roles engaging and partnering with the Community. If your interested in contacting Jen and Michelle you can contact Jen...

Social workers play a crucial role in the Mission of serving Veterans, they are healthcare force multipliers and key members of the healthcare team.  today we interviewed three social workers about their experiences about being interns (a tie in to last weeks episode on healthcare professions education week)  and their current roles serving Veterans.   If you are interested in more...

March is Social Work Month and March 14-18 is health Professions Education Week so today we were joined by Karen Sheehan Social Worker Supervisor and  Rachel Gates, Jonathan Gay Social Work Interns to discuss Social Work Month and Health Professions Education Week  

Join Lindsay Shoonmaker, RN in our GI program in a brief presentation on the importance of early screening and detection.   to watch a video on this presentation click here or check out the Albany Stratton VA Medical Center Facebook Page  if you have further questions you can contact the GI Clinic at 518 626 6385 or the GI Care Manager at 518 626 6312

Welcome Back we are rebooting our Podcast in 2023 to talk about the PACT Act, Outreach, the services offered at the Hospital, highlighting our staff and other events.

To help us kick off our goal of recruiting 2,020 new Veterans in 2020 we interviewed primary care physician Dr. Rachael Grimm and Fisher house manager Mike Fitzpatrick on all that Primary care and the Fisher House have to offer.

This is an audio recording of the facility’s June 5, 2019 Mission Act Facebook live event with Kirsten Danforth, Mission Act Champion and Mary Ann Jones, Community Care Program Manager. To learn more visit https://missionact.va.gov

Episode 4.3 - Get to know the Community Living Center (CLC) To learn more general information on Community Living Centers click Here , for specifics on the Albany VA CLC call  Barbara Darling at (518) 626-6037. To learn more about the Albany VA CLC's hand hygiene campaign and fighting the Flu click here

In this Episode we spoke with Supervisory Social Worker Patricia Kidder about the VA Innovators Network and hoe it impacts the Albany VA  to learn more the VA Innovators Network and some of the initiatives that have grown from it go to https://medium.com/vainnovation/tagged/innovation  To learn more about the three box solution click here    Staff can also learn more about the...

Episode 4.1 contains a A brief overview of Mental Health Services at the Albany VA, its Drop In groups and a teaser for a short infomercial the facility made for May is Mental Health month in conjunction with the National #BeThere Campaign.  If your interested in learning more about Mental Health give the clinic a call at 518 626 5339.  If you are interested in learning more about the Crisis Line...

Did you Know  the VA is the largest provider of Mammography services in the country?   For the Month of March we focused the podcast on Women’s Health and The Mammography Program, which is celebrating its 25th Anniversary this April.   To learn more about the Women's Health program click this link for a short video   or go to the Albany VA Women's Health program page...

Voluntary Services and salute to Veteran patients;To learn more about Albany's Voluntary Services check out the link below https://www.albany.va.gov/giving/index.asp  To connect with Noney about Volunteering or the National Salute to Veteran Patients Week  give her a call at (518) 626-5507 The Education Spotlight with Dr. William Breen: To learn more about the Health and wellness resource Dr. Bree...

Episode #1: introductions & Whole Health/Fight the Flu For more information on the Albany VA go to; https://www.albany.va.gov/ If you are interested in enrolling in VA health care call James and his staff at (518) 626 6744 or go to https://www.va.gov/health-care/how-to-apply/ for more information on Whole Health go to; https://www.va.gov/PATIENTCENTEREDCARE/veteran-handouts/ For more information o...