healthcare
Update from VAPORHCS Director
This is an operational update on VA Portland Health Care System from the Director as of May 19, 2020, with helpful information for our Veterans
May 19, 2020
8:30 am
Category: PDX Metro
education
PSU Veterans Resource Center creates new student discussion series
Portland State’s Veterans Resource Center (VRC) hosted its first student peer presentation with a “peek into virology.” The event took place virtually via Zoom on
May 12, 2020
3:45 pm
COVID-19
Canby Marine Veteran 3D Prints over 1,000 Ear Savers for Front-Line Health Care Workers
When the homemade mask craze hit a few weeks ago, with volunteers churning out dozens of cloth masks for local senior care facilities, food banks,
May 10, 2020
9:22 am
COVID-19
Air National Guard flyover salutes frontline workers
Oregon’s Air National Guard will salute local health care providers with a Friday morning, May 8, flyover by F-15 Eagle fighter jets. Oregon’s 142nd Wing
May 7, 2020
12:00 am
healthcare
VA Portland Veteran Connection Newsletter – May 2020
Read the latest from VA Portland in the May 2020 Veterans Connection Newsletter; Director’s message, new masking policy; VA Portland Waging War on Hepatitis C;
May 1, 2020
12:00 pm
WWII veterans
WWII-era anti-tank explosive found in Portland basement
Spring cleaning took an explosive turn for one Portland homeowner who discovered a World II-era anti-tank munition while mucking out their basement, police said. Views:
April 25, 2020
12:00 am
healthcare
Waging War on Hepatitis C
VA Portland Health Care System Hepatitis C team has cured thousands of Veterans of the disease in the Pacific NW. Read about the positive difference
April 22, 2020
3:00 pm
Quilting guild rises to the occassion, makes face masks for veterans hospital
Members of the Tualatin Valley Quilting Guild meet in King City parking lot to donate 315 face masks to the Portland VAMC. Views: 27
April 11, 2020
12:00 am
Oregon Lives podcast: The strangers who showed up to honor unclaimed veterans
This week’s Oregon Lives podcast is about death. But really, it’s about the living. In November, Tom Hallman and I went to a military funeral
April 1, 2020
3:53 pm
COVID-19
Coronavirus FAQs: What Veterans need to know
It takes everyone’s diligent effort to do what we can to beat this virus. Please, help your fellow Veterans, those at risk, and your loved
March 20, 2020
1:00 pm
WWII veterans
Morris Portin celebrates a century
When Morris Portin was born, Woodrow Wilson was president and everyone who knew their onions was cutting a rug to Ben Selvin’s Orchestra’s hit “Dardanella.”
March 17, 2020
12:00 am
memorials
Milwaukie’s Vietnam War memorial to be rededicated
Milwaukie American Legion Post 180, city officials and Daughters of the American Revolution are planning to rededicate the Vietnam War Commemorative Monument at Scott Park
March 15, 2020
1:03 am