Stories
Read about what's happening in our VA Salt Lake City health care community.
Army Veteran Kenneth Warkocki will participate in adaptive Alpine skiing at the 2025 Winter Sports Clinic after rebuilding his health through VA Salt Lake City’s Whole Health and recreation therapy programs.
“I wake from a coma. As things start to make sense, I see my wife struggling to tell me that my left leg is gone,” said Michael Martell. So he beat her to it. Smirking, he asked, “So, I’m a [expletive] pirate now, huh?”
Haunted by trauma — The lingering trauma from his service in Desert Shield and Desert Storm followed him home, silent but suffocating.
No more long phone waits or trips to the VA medical center. The VA: Health and Benefits App lets you refill prescriptions, message your care team and check benefits anytime, anywhere. With a 4.8 rating in the app store, many Veterans feel it's an essential tool for managing their VA health care.
As temperatures dipped to around 20 F, a group of dedicated volunteers from VA Salt Lake City Health Care System gathered before dawn, ready to play their part in addressing homelessness within their community by taking part in the annual Homeless Point in Time (PIT) count.
In the medical center that bears their father’s name, the children of the George E. Wahlen carried on a holiday tradition started by their father and their mother, Melba.
Rodney Wayne, a Navy Veteran and clinical educator at VA Salt Lake City Health Care System, knows precision is critical in emergency care, where a clinical team’s skill and focus matter most.
Veterans in need found a helping hand this holiday season, thanks to an initiative by the American Legion Auxiliary.
As the sun rose over the George E. Wahlen VA Medical Center, cars stretched through the campus and to the main entrance, headlights glowing in the crisp morning air.
As dawn breaks over Nevada on Veterans Day, 87 year-old Veteran Ben Reed, will venture out with two other men to plant 200 American Flags along a Nevada road.
