VA Salt Lake City Health Care System TeleMental Health Program Coordinator Elysia Pace instructs providers on how to connect with Veterans using a video conferencing program. Pace and others at the medical center created VA Video Connect University, a two-day in-person training course – and VA’s first in the nation – to get providers up to speed on how to use the technology to better care for and treat Veterans. | VA Salt Lake City Health Care System

VA: Health and Benefits mobile app enables Veterans to send secure messages to health care providers, view upcoming appointments, view claims and appeals status, upload documentation, locate VA facilities, download Veteran benefits letters to prove Veteran status, and more. Veterans can also login using fingerprint or face ID. Learn more: https://blogs.va.gov/VAntage/105234/no-slowing-down-get-vas-mobile-app-and-keep-moving/ #Veteran #VeteranBenefits #VR5 #VetResources | U.S. Department of Veter

15K views · 82 reactions | With the VA Health & Benefits app, you can use your phone’s built-in security features to access your health and benefits information, like refill prescriptions, send secure messages, view appointments, check the status of a claim or appeal, or find VA facilities and services near you. | U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs | Facebook

Compensation benefits are paid for disabilities that are service-connected. Service connection describes an injury or disease resulting in a disability linked to service in the military. A Veteran must also have separated or been discharged from service under other than dishonorable conditions. VA may grant service connection when evidence shows a link between a claimed medical condition and military service. For more information about Service connection go to http://www.benefits.va.gov/compensa