Serving Veterans in Michigan - 5:18
with Dr. Nicole Stromberg, Association Chief of Staff of the Mental Health Services for the Detroit VA Medical Center
Posted Aug 30, 2018
According to theRAND Center for Military Health Policy Research 20% of the vets who served in either Iraq or Afghanistan suffer from either major depression or post-traumatic stress disorder. The VA health care system has grown from 54 hospitals in 1930 to 1,600 health care facilities today, including 144 VA Medical Centers and 1,232 outpatient sites of care of varying complexity.
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