Stories

Approximately 50 Veteran residents and 20 staff members from the Milwaukee VA Medical Center’s Domiciliary loaded buses for a day trip to the Pike Lake Unit of Kettle Moraine State Forest May 23 to continue their path toward healing.

While VA does great things for Veterans on a daily basis, many Veterans either don’t know about the services available to them or believe they don’t qualify. Kimberly Jackson would like to see that change.

A new procedure at the Milwaukee VA Medical Center is helping Veterans dealing with chronic acid reflux get a better handle on their condition, leading to the best treatment.

Milwaukee VA Medical Center and University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee staff and faculty gathered for the first VA and UWM Interdisciplinary Human-centered Design Workshop at the Lubar Entrepreneurship Center on UWM’s campus May 20.

Michelle Witmer and John Afton lived some 150 years apart. But they’re linked in death — as Veterans buried in Wood National Cemetery, which hosted its annual Memorial Day ceremony Monday.

Bill Drehfal is all about creativity. Be it photography, woodworking or weaving, the 78-year-old U.S. Air Force Veteran revels in the creative process.

Four Milwaukee VA Medical Center nurses were honored with VA Secretary’s Awards for Nursing Excellence this week for their extraordinary work, with two of the nurses advancing for consideration for national accolades.

Though most recently known as a Wisconsin state legislator and the current lieutenant governor for the state, Sara Rodriguez is, at her heart, a nurse.

Elliot “E.J.” Rupert grew up in the 1980s, an era when television was ruled by family-centered sitcoms like “The Cosby Show” and kids clamored on Sundays to read cartoons such as “Peanuts” and “Calvin and Hobbes.”

Three Milwaukee VA Medical Center employees who went above and beyond in the course of their duties garnered honors during the medical center's annual Employee of the Year and I CARE Champion of the Year ceremony Friday.