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Stories Read about what's happening in our VA Eastern Colorado health care community.
“All of a sudden I had a World War II Veteran come to the mental health desk and ask, ‘Can you tell me how I can get a quilt?’,” said Scott Beaver, a medical support assistant in VA Eastern
Colorado Health Care System (ECHCS).
VA Eastern Colorado Health Care System (ECHCS) teamed up with numerous organizations Sept. 23 to offer gifts and support to women Veterans who are pregnant or have given birth in the past
year.
“Something magical happened here,” said Lisa Coble, leaving stables Aug. 17 in northern El Paso County. She had spent four mornings over the summer at a 41-acre ranch on Black Forest Road,
where ponderosa pines yield to the high plains.
VA staff are always looking for better ways to care for our Veterans and evaluating the use of the latest technology and trends is a necessary part of this effort.
Veterans got a surprise visit July 4 at Rocky Mountain Regional (RMR) VA Medical Center in Aurora. Jared Bednar, Colorado Avalanche head coach, and Erik Johnson, defenseman, decided to visit
and bring the Stanley Cup with them.
A fourth tour in Afghanistan would change his life forever. The unthinkable happened fast for 25-year-old Marine Corps Veteran Ryan Garza. In 2011, an IED blast rocked the seven-ton truck he
was riding in badly injuring his leg.
They were pioneers during a time their country needed them most, yet they were also America’s best kept secret until recently. The Women Air Force Service Pilots of World War II paved the
way for women in the military today. 100 year old WASP Veteran Nell Bright is the epitome of Upholding Valor.
Throughout the VA Eastern Colorado Health Care System, everyone worked tirelessly to care for our Veteran population as the COVID-19 pandemic arrived in the United States.
It’s been 20 years since 9/11 shook our nation to its very core. We marked that sobering day with humanity and heroism. With communities calling for justice, a new generation started
enlisting.
Chronic pain was something Army Veteran Magdalen Jean-Baptiste believed she’d experience for the rest of her life. That was until one day when a box arrived at her doorstep packed with an
iPad, a Fitbit and more.
