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Military veterans who wish to receive the vaccine against COVID-19 can be inoculated in Houma this weekend.
The Southeast Louisiana Veterans Health Care System will hold a large-scale COVID-19 vaccination drive at the Houma Community-Based Outpatient Clinic at 6433 West Park Ave. this Saturday and Sunday, Feb. 27-28. Appointments will run from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Walk-ins should arrive before 2 p.m.
Saturday will mark the first time the VA brings the vaccine to Houma. Veterans must be eligible and enrolled in VA health care to get vaccinated.
“The vaccine clinic in Houma is the fifth site in southeast Louisiana,” said Medical Center Director Fernando Rivera. “I encourage veterans to take advantage of the added location and to protect themselves by getting vaccinated.”
Veterans of all ages can receive COVID vaccine at New Orleans VA Medical Center
The vaccine clinic is open from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the facility in the 2400 block of Canal Street. You may make an appointment for the vaccine or just walk in.
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FILE - In this Jan. 15, 2021, file photo, CVS Pharmacist Gerard Diebner prepares COVID-19 vaccine for nursing home residents at Harlem Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation, in the Harlem neighborhood of New York. New York officials are pushing for more COVID-19 vaccine doses as the effort to speed up inoculations collides with a lack of vaccine. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said Tuesday that the city will run out of first doses of COVID-19 vaccine sometime Thursday without fresh supplies. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura, File)
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VA New Orleans Receives Spinal Cord Rehabilitation Exoskeleton From National Nonprofit SoldierStrong
SoldierStrongDecember 18, 2020 GMT
NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 18, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) SoldierStrong, a national nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the lives of Veterans through the donation of revolutionary medical technologies to Veterans Affairs and other medical centers across the country, donated an exoskeleton to the New Orleans Veterans Medical Center today.
Since SoldierStrong’s inception following the tragic events of 9/11, the Stamford, Conn.-based group has donated more than $3 million of medical devices to help injured Veterans. Today’s donation is the organization’s 24th exoskeleton donation, including the 20th one to the VA system. Currently, 35,000 Veterans have access to exoskeleton rehabilitation devices.