Home / Media / News Stories

News Story Archive

News Story Manager

Results:
Tag: warfighters
Clear

  • August

    Marine Veteran Christopher Scott Louie, center, cuts the ribbon during a ceremony celebrating the opening of the VA Long Beach Healthcare System's mental health in-patient and out-patient facilities Aug. 28 in Long Beach, California. Also pictured are, from left to right, Dr. Larry Albers, chief of psychiatry and mental health; Dr. Carolyn Clancy, Assistant Under Secretary for Health for Discovery, Education and Affiliate Networks; Walt Dannenberg, VA Long Beach Medical Center director; Dr. Sharon De Peralta, chief of Patient Care Services, Mental Health; and Stephanie Young, VISN Interim Network director.

    VA Long Beach celebrates opening of mental health facilities

    Department of Veterans Affairs officials celebrated the opening of two mental health facilities with a ribbon-cutting ceremony Aug. 28 at the Tibor Rubin Veterans Affairs Medical Center campus in Long Beach, California. The mental health buildings – constructed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Los Angeles District and its contractors – include an 80,000-square-foot outpatient facility and a 40-bed, 82,000-square-foot inpatient facility.

  • March

    Jenn Rivo, project manager with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District’s Mega Projects Division, Department of Veterans Affairs Branch, talks to leaders from the Corps of Engineers and the Department of Veterans Affairs during a Feb. 23 site visit to construction areas at the VA San Diego Healthcare System in La Jolla, California.

    Corps’ Military Programs director for Interagency, International Services tours Southern California Veterans Affairs’ projects

    The director of Military Programs for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Interagency and International Services traveled to Southern California Feb. 23 and 24 to meet with representatives working on three different Veterans Affairs projects. The projects are managed by the Corps’ Los Angeles District.

  • May

    Maj. Gen. Jeffrey Milhorn, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers deputy commanding general for Military and International Operations, center left, listens as Brig. Gen. Paul Owen, the Corps' South Pacific Division commander, center right, talks about the Corps' FEMA mission in support of LA-area hospitals during an April 28 tour of Adventist Health White Memorial Hospital in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles.

    Corps general tours military, DOD, VA projects during weeklong visit to California

    LOS ANGELES – One of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ top generals for military and international operations made his first visit to Southern California during a weeklong tour of some of the agency’s Los Angeles District projects. Maj. Gen. Jeffrey Milhorn, the Corps’ deputy commanding general for Military and International Operations, toured several project sites across the desert and the coastline – from the National Training Center at Fort Irwin to Vandenburg Air Force Base – during his visit to California.