Stories
Read about what's happening in our VA Tennessee Valley health care community.
More than 94,000 Tennessee Veterans eligible for VA care live in a rural area.
On Oct. 1, 2024, VA Tennessee Valley Healthcare System (TVHS) officially opened its stem cell processing lab and is now the only VA in the country with a fully intact stem cell transplant program, expanding cutting edge biotherapy services to Veterans.
“Whatever is going on in your life, if it’s important to you, it’s important to a chaplain,” said TVHS Chaplain Woodretta Allen.
“It's kind of funny. When you’re trying to focus on what fly to use … you don’t have to think about anything else.”
In the early years of his life, Navy Veteran Gary Duncan was spiraling out of control.
Dr. Sandra Zinkel, a VA Tennessee Valley Healthcare System staff hematologist, was honored with the Clinician Scientist Investigator (CSI) Award to continue her research in blood cell development and myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS).
Daniel Dücker, VA Tennessee Valley Healthcare System (TVHS) Executive Director, accepted a VA Customer Service Innovation Award during VA’s 2024 Customer Experience (CX) Symposium on Monday, Sept. 16, 2024.
Nine nurse practitioners graduated from VA Tennessee Valley Healthcare System's (TVHS) Nurse Practitioner Residency Programs on Friday, Sept. 6.
During a rather bleak and cloudy month in Houston, Texas, Rory Thompson recalls it being an unusually sunny day in early March 2000. Perhaps the sunshine was a foreshadowing of the people and experiences to enter Thompson’s life during some of his darkest moments in the years to come.
A recent study conducted by VA Tennessee Valley Healthcare System (TVHS) has linked 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD), an environmental toxin and contaminant of Agent Orange, to adverse reproductive health outcomes, including preterm birth.
