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In the Spotlight

Whole Person, Whole Health, Whole Life

Focus on the person, not the disease

If you're a Premium user, you've probably used My HealtheVet for prescription refills. Maybe you've downloaded part of your medical records or looked at your doctor's notes from a recent visit. You've even talked to the health care team about your diet (maybe it's about your weight or blood sugar levels). But if you think your health care is missing a plan, then you need to look at Whole Health.

What is Whole Health?

Whole Health is VA's new approach to delivering health care. It equips you to take charge of your health and well-being and to live your life to the fullest. VA facilities across the country are implementing Whole Health as a new approach to provide health services with Veterans as partners in your health. The focus is on empowering you to take charge of your health and well-being. Clinical care, when needed, is an important part of any Personal Health Plan. This isn't about prescriptions or medications. Whole Health is an approach that focuses on supporting YOU to achieve YOUR goals.

How does it work?

Whole Health is a new approach that is all about you and complements any clinical care you may be receiving. You are invited to use Whole Health online resources and attend peer-led Introduction to Whole Health sessions at VA facilities. In these education sessions, you can explore your mission, aspiration, and purpose, and begin your overarching personal health plan. VA patients can also work with Whole Health peer facilitators who are Veterans serving to support their fellow Veterans in achieving their goals.

Get Started

Contact your local VA or ask your health care team how you can get started. You can complete the online Personal Health Inventory, which you can download as a file and send as a Secure Message to your health care team.

Once you determine your priorities, your VA health team can help identify well-being programs to help enhance your self-care. Well-being programs can include physical and creative activities, mindfulness, meditation, or many complementary approaches that include yoga, acupuncture, and others.

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Whole Health for Life

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Created October 4, 2018

Perhaps a small donation from Henderson Vet Groups might be a good thing for morale.

Lou

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From: Thank A Vet <support@thankavet365.org>

To: Lou Rothenstein <loumisgm@yahoo.com>

Sent: Wednesday, May 9, 2018, 6:04:28 PM PDT

Subject: Fwd: Care packages

This is from the unit that we are going to help.

debi

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From: Christina Dorsey <redneck.extreme@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, May 4, 2018 at 10:15 AM
Subject: Care packages
To: THANK A VET <support@thankavet365.org>

Here is the information for my soliders in need of care packages. If anyone has any questions please let me know. Thanks 

Christina Dorsey 

Please pass this contact information along for those who can provide care packages to our Team deployed in the most forward places in the Middle East. Not Iraq, Kuwait or Afghanistan.
They do not have the PX and the luxury's most of us spoiled Soldiers had in Iraq. They have nothing other than the mission and the environment to keep them going. As Chaplains they have a mission to provide moral boosters to the Marines and Soldiers they are supporting. So it's not just the two of them we should think about.
Let's try and work on some major care packages leading up to Christmas due to the delay in shipping and how remote they are in the region. 
  Now that we have a home for the next few months, here is our contact information. Up until we got here, there were only Chaplains that visited and none that stayed for very long.

Has 300-350 people average.
Mailing address:
   Pappe, Cliff MAJ
   CJTF-OIR-Chaplain
   KLZ-IZ
   APO, AE 09314

U.S.S. Corvina Model Will Soon Have a Permanent Place of Remembrance

(Carson City, NV) – The WWII submarine, The U.S.S. Corvina, will soon have a permanent home where the service and sacrifice of its crew members will be forever honored and remembered. That new home will be in the lobby of the State of Nevada Library, located in the Capitol Complex in Carson City. 
A new clear, plexiglass display case is being specially designed and built to protect, house, and display a 10-foot model replica of the fated submarine. The new case will also display memorabilia from the Corvina and its crew members. 
At one time, the Corvina model was displayed at the Reno's Veterans Administration Medical Center (VA Sierra Nevada Health Care System). After a remodeling project at the Veterans Administration facility, the model was moved for safe keeping and has since been sitting in a private garage. Aside from its appearances in parades or other public venues, the model has been out of daily sight from the public. In the months ahead, that will change. 
With support from the Nevada Department of Veterans Services, a unique partnership has formed between Nevada's U.S. Submarine Veterans Inc., Corvina Base, the Nevada Department of Administration and State Public Works. Since the beginning of this year, work has been underway to find the replica a new home. Mary Woods, with the Nevada Department of Administration said, "The plan for the display is perfect! The back door of the lobby of the State Library leads right out to the Veteran’s Wall, which is right behind the Capitol Building." 
For now, there are tentative plans for a formal dedication ceremony on August 6, 2018, with additional details to be determined. The date was selected because is it the submarine's 75th Commission Anniversary. 
The Corvina was assigned to Nevada and is one of 52 American submarines lost at sea. For more about the Nevada veterans group, visit the Corvina website: http://usscorvinabase.org/)
For more on the Corvina history and its fallen, visit here:
https://www.oneternalpatrol.com/uss-corvina-226.htm

Message from the Director

Greetings and Welcome to May!
Memorial Day will be here before you know it. Thank you for sharing your activities and events! With your help, we have been able to assemble a very full calendar for this month. Click here if you wish to review it: http://veterans.nv.gov/news/199290/mark-your-calendar-may-2018
We're getting a lot of interest early on about Memorial Day events. In Fernley, the ceremony starts on Monday, May 28 at 11:00 a.m. In southern Nevada, I will be attending the ceremony in Boulder City, also scheduled on Monday, May 28 at 1:00 p.m.
Don't forget the "Flag-In" events at both cemeteries! This ensures an American flag is placed on each gravesite. This year, the "Flag-In" events will be held on Saturday, May 26. For more detail, including the times and locations to meet inside the cemeteries, click here: http://veterans.nv.gov/news/199291/a-closer-look-at-memorial-day
I also want to thank everyone in southern Nevada who turned out for our free, two-day Nevada Veterans Advocate (NVA) workshop in Henderson! There was record-breaking attendance and interest; we're already planning the next free event. It will be in held in October in Elko. We will share times, dates, location as soon as this information is available.
As an NVA, you are a specially trained volunteer who can be of tremendous help to veterans or military members. The training allows you to assist in connecting these individuals to earned benefits, resources or programs. If you cannot attend the next free training, you are always welcome to become an NVA by taking our online course! Visit here to learn more: http://www.veterans.nv.gov/page/veterans-advocacy
Speaking of advocates, the United Veterans Legislative Council is ramping up to take the concerns and issues identified in our recent Veterans Legislative Symposia in Reno and Las Vegas to Nevada lawmakers. The Nevada Department of Veterans Services will have a report on the Symposia that we will post to our website soon.
Finally, we received very positive news recently from the federal government regarding construction funding for our new Northern Nevada State Veterans Home! We learned we will receive more than $33 million dollars in a new VA construction grant this year! Click the link below to find out why a federal rule change, championed by Senator Dean Heller and supported by our Congressional delegation, made all the difference in the world! http://www.kolotv.com/content/news/Northern-Nevada-Veterans-Home-480072693.html
The new veterans' home is being built in Sparks, Nevada. Its completion remains on schedule, with a ribbon-cutting ceremony set for December 2018!  It's my belief this project would have never happened without the leadership of Governor Sandoval, all our elected leaders and you!
Respectfully,
Kat Miller

Veteran of the Month

Fwd: Veteran of the Month

MOPH Patriots -- I hope you can join me next Monday, Apr 16th at 1:30 pm in the foyer of the Grant Sawyer building as Governor Sandoval recognizes Raymond Warran III, USMC, as Nevada's April Veteran of the Month.

Len Yelinek

Commander, Las Vegas Chapter 711

Military Order of the Purple Heart

Ray Warren is Veteran of the month for April and the Governor plans on being there. Please get as many of our Purple Heart members to attend as you can. My congratulations to Ray on receiving this important recognition.

Andy LePeilbet 775-772-8747

Sent from my iPhone

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From: David Johnson <johnsond@veterans.nv.gov>
Date: April 6, 2018 at 12:19:01 PM PDT
To: "'LePeibet Andy (andy@nevadaandy.com)'" <andy@nevadaandy.com>
Subject: Veteran of the Month

Thanks Andy,

His name is Raymond Warran III U.S. Marine Corps

It will be held at the Grant Sawyer Building on Monday April 16, 2018 at 1:30 pm with the Governor attending