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Jamaica Plain VA Medical Center | VA Boston Health Care | Veterans Affairs
Through group, individual and telehealth sessions, we provide nutrition education and counseling in areas such as:

Cardiovascular and heart health
Chronic kidney disease
Diabetes (including gestational diabetes)
Eating disorders and digestive health
Pregnancy and postpartum nutrition
Weight management

To access care, ask your Primary Care team for a consult or call the Nutrition Scheduler at .
Learn more about VA Boston's Nutrition and Food Service.

 Optometry
 

Common conditions: vision exams, prescription eyeglasses, contact lenses
 
Our optometrists offer you routine eye exams, preventive vision testing and treatment for conditions like glaucoma. We also provide prescriptions for eyeglasses and other assistive devices.

 Visit our office, with or without an appointment
 

 A referral is not required
 

Appointments
Contact us to schedule, reschedule or cancel your appointment. Walk-in services are also available during regular business hours for emergencies, as well as eyeglass adjustments and repairs.

Optometry Clinic at the Jamaica Plain Campus

 Schedule an appointment online
 

Main Phone

Service Hours

 The service hours are the same as our facility hours.
 

Care we provide at VA Boston health care
Comprehensive eye care with a focus on vision correction and screening for ocular disease.
We treat the following conditions

Ocular inflammation
Glaucoma
Dry eye
Near-sightedness/far-sightedness

Available at these locations

Brockton VA Medical Center
Jamaica Plain VA Medical Center
Lowell CBOC
West Roxbury VA Medical Center

How to Make an Appointment
If you aren't currently being seen by Optometry, you can be referred by your primary care provider for an initial consultation. If you are already being followed by Optometry, please call the clinic directly at .
Learn more about our Optometrists at VA Boston health care

 PTSD care
 

If you have symptoms of PTSD after a traumatic event, we can help. We offer assessment and treatment support such as private counseling, group therapy and medication. It’s never too late to get help.

 Visit our office, by appointment only
Digital Notifications Terms And Conditions | Veterans Affairs
If you change your email or mobile phone number, you must tell us right away to keep getting communications. You can update your information in either of these 2 ways:

Update your information in your VA.gov profile (for health care and benefit communications), or
Contact your local VA health facility (for health care communications) or regional office (for benefit communications)
Find contact information for VA locations

We aren’t responsible for any communication or transmission of information through email or text that happens because of a change of contact information that isn’t reported.
We don’t endorse a specific operating system or web browser. To receive digital communications from us, you must have an internet or cellular access device, such as a smartphone, tablet, computer desktop, or laptop. The device must have an operating system (Windows®, MacOS®, iOS, or Android™) that can support emails and text messages.
Delivery and messaging rates
If your mobile phone isn’t close enough to a transmission site, or there’s not enough network capacity to receive a text, you may not receive our text messages.
Even within a coverage area, factors beyond the control of wireless carriers may interfere with message delivery. These factors can include issues with your equipment, terrain, how close you are to buildings, foliage, and weather. We aren’t responsible for delayed or undelivered messages by wireless service providers.
Email providers don’t guarantee the successful delivery of emails. Emails can have similar issues as text messages.
Message and data rates may apply. Your wireless service provider may charge you for any messages sent to you from us and to us from you. Content may not be available through all carriers. 
Participating service providers may include but aren’t limited to AT&T Wireless, Google Voice, Metro by T-Mobile, Sprint Corporation, T-Mobile, UScellular, Verizon Wireless, and Virgin Mobile. 
If you have any questions about your text or data plan, contact your wireless provider.
Privacy and security
Text messaging and email aren’t encrypted forms of communication. Encryption is a way of making data hard to read by people other than the intended recipient. We strongly encourage you to use password-protected mobile devices.
Brockton VA Medical Center | VA Boston Health Care | Veterans Affairs
To access care, ask your Primary Care team for a consult or call the Nutrition Scheduler at .
Learn more about VA Boston's Nutrition and Food Service.

 Optometry
 

Common conditions: vision exams, prescription eyeglasses, contact lenses
 
Our optometrists offer you routine eye exams, preventive vision testing and treatment for conditions like glaucoma. We also provide prescriptions for eyeglasses and other assistive devices.

 Visit our office, with or without an appointment
 

 A referral is not required
 

Appointments
Contact us to schedule, reschedule or cancel your appointment. Walk-in services are also available during regular business hours for emergencies, as well as eyeglass adjustments and repairs.

Optometry Clinic at the Brockton Campus

 Schedule an appointment online
 

Main Phone

Service Hours

 The service hours are the same as our facility hours.
 

Care we provide at VA Boston health care
Comprehensive eye care with a focus on vision correction and screening for ocular disease.
We treat the following conditions

Ocular inflammation
Glaucoma
Dry eye
Near-sightedness/far-sightedness

Available at these locations

Brockton VA Medical Center
Jamaica Plain VA Medical Center
Lowell CBOC
West Roxbury VA Medical Center

How to Make an Appointment
If you aren't currently being seen by Optometry, you can be referred by your primary care provider for an initial consultation. If you are already being followed by Optometry, please call the clinic directly at .
Learn more about our Optometrists at VA Boston health care

 PTSD care
 

If you have symptoms of PTSD after a traumatic event, we can help. We offer assessment and treatment support such as private counseling, group therapy and medication. It’s never too late to get help.

 Visit our office, by appointment only
 

 A referral is not required
 

Appointments
Contact us for an appointment or to just learn more about PTSD.

Administrative number for outpatient mental health care

Main Phone

Administrative number for outpatient mental health care

Direct dial -- administrative number for outpatient mental health care

Service Hours
Seeing, Believing: 15 Years of Exoplanet Images – Exoplanet Exploration: Planets Beyond our Solar System
Among her research milestones was the discovery, in the late 1980s, of massive clumps of gas falling onto the surface of the system’s central star – and at high rates of speed, up to 200 miles (350 kilometers) per second.
Lagrange and her fellow researchers relied on observations from the IUE (International Ultraviolet Explorer) satellite – “an ancestor” of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, she said – to propose that the infalling gas was caused by evaporating comets.
“They were the first exocomets [observed] around another star,” she said. “At the beginning, many people were laughing at it.” The findings held up, and the presence of exocomets in the system was confirmed by further observations announced in 2022.
In the mid 1990s, relying on the recently launched Hubble as well as increasingly sophisticated ground-based instruments, scientists realized that the debris disk around Beta Pictoris was warped, like a vinyl record left too long in the Sun.
Computer modeling results suggested the warp was a gravitational skew caused by an orbiting planet. And in 2008, after long effort, Lagrange and her team hit paydirt: a direct image of the giant, gaseous planet, so young it was still glowing from its recent formation.
“The nice thing is, we predicted it 10 years before,” she said.

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Discovery Alert: A New Giant, Directly Imaged

Discovery Alert! A New Super-Earth in the Neighborhood (Six Light-Years Away)

Still a relatively minor player in the detection of exoplanets, direct imaging’s role will expand in the years and decades to come, promising deep insights into the nature of distant planets as technology improves. But even then, each “image” of a planet will still be just a handful of pixels.
That might sound disappointing, especially in the era of spectacular sci-fi movie effects. If we find an “Earth-like” planet, we won’t see continents and oceans – at least not yet.
SNAP Work Requirements | Food and Nutrition Service
Eating Healthy with SNAP

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While SNAP is intended to ensure no one in our land of plenty should fear going hungry, its rules also reflect the importance of work and responsibility. SNAP has two sets of work requirements, the general work requirements and the able bodied adult without dependents (ABAWD) work requirements.The General Work RequirementsIf you are age 16 – 59 and able to work, you will probably need to meet the general work requirements to get SNAP benefits. The general work requirements include registering for work, participating in SNAP Employment and Training (E&T) or workfare if assigned by your state SNAP agency, taking a suitable job if offered, and not voluntarily quitting a job or reducing your work hours below 30 a week without a good reason.You are excused from the general work requirements if you are any one of these things:Already working at least 30 hours a week (or earning wages at least equal to the federal minimum wage multiplied by 30 hours);Meeting work requirements for another program (TANF or unemployment compensation);Taking care of a child under 6 or an incapacitated person;Unable to work due to a physical or mental limitation;Participating regularly in an alcohol or drug treatment program;Studying in school or a training program at least half-time (but college students are subject to other eligibility rules).If you have to meet the general work requirements but you don’t, you are disqualified from getting SNAP for at least a month and must start meeting the requirements to get SNAP again. If you get back on SNAP and then don’t meet the requirements again, then you are disqualified for longer than a month and you could be disqualified forever.The ABAWD Work Requirement and Time LimitIf you are age 18–52*, able to work, and don’t have any dependents, you might need to meet both the general work requirements and an additional work requirement for ABAWDs to get SNAP for more than 3 months in 3 years (the time limit).You can meet the ABAWD work requirement by doing any one of these things:Work at least 80 hours a month. Work can be for pay, for goods or services (for something other than money), unpaid, or as a volunteer;Participate in a work program at least 80 hours a month.
Health Services | VA New Mexico Health Care | Veterans Affairs
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
Anxiety, addictive behaviors, and personality disorders
Aggressive or self-harming behaviors

Click here to learn about your local Mental health care services

 Military sexual trauma care
 

Military sexual trauma can happen to both genders. If you experienced sexual assault or harassment during military service—no matter when you served—we provide counseling and treatment.
Available at these locations

Care we provide at VA New Mexico health care
We offer care for military sexual trauma in our mental (behavioral) health clinics. Military sexual trauma refers to sexual assault, sexual harassment, or other threatening, offensive, or unwanted sexual advances, activities, or remarks that you experienced in the military. Our goal is to help you improve your quality of life with strategies to manage emotions and memories related to your military sexual trauma. Our services include:

Counseling
Psychiatric care
Walk-in care

Learn more about military sexual trauma
Click here to learn about your local Mental health care services

 PTSD care
 

If you have symptoms of PTSD after a traumatic event, we can help. We offer assessment and treatment support such as private counseling, group therapy and medication. It’s never too late to get help.
Available at these locations

Care we provide at VA New Mexico health care
If you have symptoms of PTSD after a traumatic event, we can help. We offer assessment and treatment support such as private counseling, group therapy and medication. It’s never too late to get help.
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a mental health problem that some people develop after experiencing or witnessing a life-threatening event, like combat, a natural disaster, a car accident, or sexual assault. It’s normal to have upsetting memories, feel on edge, or have trouble sleeping after this type of event. If symptoms last more than a few months, it may be PTSD. We can help you with effective treatments and support services, like:
Psychiatric and psychological counseling
Services for Veterans who are homeless
Treatment for addictive disorders
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Live Drafts (CAWeb)
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Home - Veterans Affairs (VA) History
For those that returned home, their experiences in captivity often had long-lasting impacts on their physical and mental health. Over the decades, the U.S. government sought to address their specific needs through legislation conferring special benefits on former prisoners of war.
In 1978, five years after the United States withdrew the last of its combat troops from South Vietnam, Congress mandated VA carry out a thorough study of the disability and medical needs of former prisoners of war. In consultation with the Secretary of Defense, VA completed the study in 14 months and published its findings in early 1980. Like previous investigations in the 1950s, the study confirmed that former prisoners of war had higher rates of service-connected disabilities. 
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Featured Stories
The Black Diamond Crew and the Hunt for John Wilkes BoothDuring the late evening, early hours of April 23-24, 1865, the Black Diamond, a ship on the Potomac River searching for President Abraham Lincoln's assassin John Wilkes Booth collided with another ship, the USS Massachusetts. The incident was a terrible accident during the frantic mission to locate the fleeing Booth before he escaped into Virginia. Unfortunately many lives were lost, including four civilians who had been summoned from a local fire department by the Army. For their assistance during this military operation, all four were buried in the Alexandria National Cemetery, some of the few civilians to receive that honor.
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History of VA in 100 Objects
Object 78: French Cross at Cypress Hills National Cemetery in BrooklynIn the waning days of World War I, French sailors from three visiting allied warships marched through New York in a Liberty Loan Parade. The timing was unfortunate as the second wave of the influenza pandemic was spreading in the U.S. By January, 25 of French sailors died from the virus. 
These men were later buried at the Cypress Hills National Cemetery and later a 12-foot granite cross monument, the French Cross, was dedicated in 1920 on Armistice Day. This event later influenced changes to burial laws that opened up availability of allied service members and U.S. citizens who served in foreign armies in the war against Germany and Austrian empires. 
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Curator Corner
What’s in the box: Librarian Helen CarsonIt isn’t often that researchers who work with historic objects get to know the people who used those objects every day.
Eugene J. Towbin Healthcare Center | VA Central Arkansas Health Care | Veterans Affairs
you’ll need to contact your primary care provider first.
 

Call for more information or to make an appointment

 Schedule an appointment online
 

 Eye Clinic
 

 Building 66
 

 1st floor
 

Main Phone

Service Hours

 The service hours are the same as our facility hours.
 

Our optometrists provide many eye-related services and treatments like:

Vision services and eye exams
Treatment for diseases and injuries of the retina, cornea, and other parts of your eye
Low-vision services for conditions like macular degeneration that can’t be corrected by glasses, surgery, or medication
Special eye exams for diabetic patients

Optometry services at our facilities
Optometry services are available in building 66 on the Fort Roots campus in North Little Rock, and near the Eye Clinic at John L. McClellan Memorial Veterans Hospital in Little Rock.  Some optometry services are offered at some of our Community Based Outpatient Clinics.
Please contact your local clinic for more information on optometry services.

 PTSD care
 

If you have symptoms of PTSD after a traumatic event, we can help. We offer assessment and treatment support such as private counseling, group therapy and medication. It’s never too late to get help.

 Visit our office, with or without an appointment
 

 A referral is not required
 

Appointments

 Contact us to schedule, reschedule, or cancel your appointment. If a referral is required,
 you’ll need to contact your primary care provider first.
 

Main Phone

 Schedule an appointment online
 

Main Phone

Service Hours

 The service hours are the same as our facility hours.
 

Care we provide at VA Central Arkansas
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a mental health problem that some people develop after experiencing or witnessing a life-threatening event, like combat, a natural disaster, a car accident, or sexual assault. It’s normal to have upsetting memories, feel on edge, or have trouble sleeping after this type of event. If symptoms last more than a few months, it may be PTSD. We can help you with effective treatments and support services, like:
 

Psychiatric and psychological counseling
Order CPAP Supplies | Veterans Affairs
More questions about CPAP suppliesAre my CPAP supplies free of charge?You can get these supplies free of charge if both of these are true:Your VA provider has recommended them for you, andYou remain eligible for and enrolled in VA health careWhat CPAP supplies can I order?You can order these supplies:ChinstrapHoses (tubing)Filters (disposable or non‐disposable)Mask linersMask with headgearPower cordReplacement cushionSecure Digital (SD) memory cardWater chamberHow long will it take to receive my order?You’ll receive an email with your order tracking number within 1 to 2 days of your order. Orders typically arrive within 7 to 10 business days.What if my CPAP machine isn’t working correctly?Contact your local VA health facility. Your VA provider can order a new machine for you. Find your VA health facility

Last updated: April 19, 2024

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Get A Veteran Health Identification Card (VHIC) | Veterans Affairs
Learn how to get a VHIC in person or online—and how to replace a lost or stolen card. 

 How do I get my VHIC?
 

First, you’ll need to be enrolled in VA health care. If you’re not already enrolled, you can apply now. 
Find out how to apply for VA health care
After you receive your VA health care welcome call, you can apply for a VHIC in person at a VA medical center or online.
Note: Only request your card once, either in person or online. If you request your card more than once, it will cause a delay.
In person
Contact your nearest VA medical center and ask to speak with the enrollment coordinator. Ask the coordinator to help you arrange to get your picture taken for your new Veteran Health Identification Card.
Find a VA medical center near you
You can also ask for help with getting your picture taken at your next VA health care appointment.
Bring a current, unexpired ID to your photo appointment
You can bring any of these ID types:

State-issued driver’s license, or
U.S. passport, or 
Federal, state, or local government-issued photo ID showing your name, address, and date of birth

Note: If your ID doesn’t show your address, you’ll need to bring a separate document to confirm your address. This could be your electric bill, cable bill, voter registration card, or another mailed document.
Online
You can sign in to AccessVA to request your VHIC. You’ll need a Login.gov, ID.me, DS Logon, My HealtheVet, or Department of Defense Common Access Card (CAC) account. 
If you don’t have any of these accounts, you can create one now. Follow the instructions on the sign-in page to register for a sign-in partner.
Go to AccessVA to request your VHIC online
Note: If you live outside the U.S. and you don’t have any of these accounts, you’ll need to create an ID.me account to verify your identity.
Learn how to verify your identity if you live outside the U.S.