Stories | VA New York Harbor Health Care | Veterans Affairs


Stories | VA New York Harbor Health Care | Veterans Affairs

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Calling all newly licensed Registered Nurses: Enroll in VA New York Harbor’s One-Year Post Baccalaureate Nurse Residency Program! Rapidly develop your skills under the guidance of


experienced preceptors and mentors.


Last Fall, dozens of Veterans across the five boroughs submitted artwork in the form of paintings, creative writing, musical performances, dramatic interpretation, photography, and more to


the 2022 National Veterans Creative Arts Competition.


On an otherwise quiet, rainy morning at the VA New York Harbor Healthcare System’s Manhattan Campus, Speech Language Pathologists Matthew Vespertino and Stephanie Bonowicz were busy setting


up Harbor’s first in-person cancer screening event in over two years to commemorate Oral, Head and Neck Cancer Awareness Week.


When Shpresa Islami, RN, arrived at the Staten Island Outpatient Clinic of the VA New York Harbor Healthcare System ready to administer COVID-19 vaccinations, she didn’t realize that she


would get to fulfill a lifelong goal.


As patients and staff solemnly commemorated the 20th anniversary of September 11th during a ceremony held at the Margaret Cochran Corbin Campus of the VA New York Harbor Healthcare System,


Veteran and spoken-word poet Eugene Thomas Jr. shared his perspective of that fateful day.