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TVC Health Care Advocates Diane Gaitan and Tina Hayes are successfully getting mobile phones that provide health care services to veterans in their area through the Cell Phones for Soldiers program. This valuable program provides smartphones to eligible veterans that include one full year of free talk, text, and data;

TVC Health Care Advocate and Navy veteran DeDe Card’s ability to deliver vital medical needs, coordinate community resources for veterans and literally go the extra mile has earned her praise from veterans and a TVC Excellence Award. A veteran from Nacogdoches expressed his deep gratitude for Card’s tireless support. Through

Pictured from left are Texas Veterans Commission (TVC) Chairwoman Laura Koerner, Health Care Advocate Sean Lewis, Executive Director Tom Palladino and TVC Commissioner Chuck Wright. TVC Health Care Advocate and Army veteran Sean Lewis successfully resolved 468 VA health care issues for veterans with positive results in the past year.

TVC’s Health Care Advocacy Department (HCAD) reports an increase in veterans contacting them for assistance with VA Community Care. Through that program, veterans receive care from third party providers when the VA cannot provide the care needed. A recent example comes from a Lufkin area veteran connecting with TVC Health Care

TVC Health Care Advocate Shonda Roy in Beaumont got a “High 5” in the Houston VA newsletter for the caring assistance she provided a veteran’s surviving spouse. The VA Houston High Fives newsletter stated “Shonda did an exceptional job helping a grieving spouse trying to obtain the Veteran’s DD 214,

During Fiscal Year 2021-2022, from September 1, 2021 to August 31, 2022, the Texas Veterans Commission (TVC) Health Care Advocacy Department (HCAD) closed over 11,300 cases in which a veteran came to them with a medical issue and HCAD resolved it or connected the veteran with a “warm handoff” to

The presence of Texas Veterans Commission (TVC) Health Care Advocates (HCAs) who assist veterans with VA health care issues is expanding into areas which previously had none. Lubbock and Abilene are among the latest, new locations to receive HCAs with Stephen Harrison in Lubbock and Susie Middlemas in Abilene. Both

The budget approved by the Texas Legislature and by Governor Greg Abbott included the Texas Veterans Commission’s (TVC) request to add 12 more Health Care Advocates (HCAs) in VA facilities to help resolve veterans’ health care questions and issues. TVC HCAs advocate for individual veterans. They work with the veteran

Freddy Salazar served in the Marine Corps from 2005-2009. After he left the service, he was married and had two daughters. “Due to some mental health conditions and drug and alcohol use, I lost it all,” said Salazar. In 2012, he separated from his wife and was homeless. “I was