General VA
The Department has three main subdivisions: VHA, VBA and this lesser-known organization
What is NCA / National Cemetery Administration?
The Department of Veterans Affairs, as we know it today, was officially created by President Hoover in 1930 with this former title
What is Veterans' Administration?
The percentage of VA employees who are veterans (ref: Pew Research Center Report)
What is 25%?
The first tumor research lab was founded at this sprawling Chicagoland VA hospital
Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture is widely referred to with this acronym
Veterans of this war were the first to receive benefits appropriated by the US Congress
What is the Revolutionary War?
Which president is quoted in the VA motto, adopted in 1959 (further adapted in 2023):"To care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow, and his orphan"
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The number of military branches represented by the HEFP SEP Government Team
What is 2 (USN, USAF)?
Long Beach, CA's, Tibor Rubin VA Medical Center is named for a Holocaust survivor who also survived a POW camp in this foreign war
What is the Korean War?
You don't need a vaccine for this coding language behind the VA's original medical record database launched in 1978
Sorry VISN 23, the actual number of Veterans Integrated Services Networks (VISN) is...
What is 18?
There are seven "eligible wartime periods" for VA pension benefits, and the seventh has been ongoing since the start of this war
What is the Gulf War (I)?
What is Montana?
The VA Medical Center in Murfreesoboro, TN, is named for this famous WW1 Army Sergeant
Who is Sgt. Alvin C. York?
In Apollo 13, Tom Hanks plays the namesake astronaut of this joint VA-DoD hospital in Chicago
Who is James A. Lovell?
The 100th VA Medical Center was built in this Michigan city, also known as the home of corn flakes
What is Battle Creek?
When it opened in 1946, 77% of this Delaware VAMC's staff were veterans
What is Wilmington VA Medical Center?
This medical center along the Gulf Coast is the largest by number of staffed beds
What is Biloxi VA Medical Center?
After WW2, the VA embarked on a massive construction plan to accommodate the surge in veterans. The new type of hospitals were named for Gen. Omar Bradley and the number of beds
What is Bradley 500?
The VA's "fourth mission" is to care for this population in the event of national crises & hospital overflows
Delphine Baker, a volunteer nurse during the Civil War, petitioned the government to create a "National Home" for veterans, the first of which was in this New England town (still home to a VA healthcare system today)
What is Togus, Maine?
When I first started supporting the VA, this Vietnam vet was serving as the first Asian-American Secretary of the VA
Who is General (Ret.) Eric Shinseki?
What is 170?
From 1920 to 1965, this Minnesota-based VA Medical Center offered both occupational therapy and agricultural infrastructure, providing crops and dairy for hospital staff & patients
What is St. Cloud VA Medical Center