Military Service Veterans and Affiliates Resource Guide

Links to Federal and Veterans Administration benefits and resources, a personal health journal and online VA prescription refills for qualified registrants.
In the future, registrants will be able to view appointments, co-pay balances, and key portions of their VA medical records online.
Access to online medical libraries is provided through the National Library of Medicine’s MedlinePlus® and WebMD’s Healthwise®.

Integrated and coordinated continuum of services for eligible Veterans and Service Members with polytrauma and traumatic brain injury (TBI).
Polytrauma occurs when a person experiences injuries to multiple body parts and organ systems often, but not always, as a result of blast-related events. TBI frequently occurs in polytrauma in combination with other disabling conditions, such as amputation, burns, spinal cord injury, auditory and visual damage , spinal cord injury (SCI), post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and other medical conditions.
System Locator

• The vet enrolled in VA health care on or before August 1, 2014, or is eligible to enroll as a recently discharged combat veteran
and
• The vet has been (or will be) waiting more than 30 days for VA medical care
or
• The vet lives more than 40 miles away from a VA medical care facility or faces one of several excessive travel burdens.

Links to overviews, specific conditions, related issues, organizations, tutorials, directories, and more

Information on how the injury occurs, treatment, prognosis, clinical trials and research is featured on this site. Organizations are also listed for further information.

Cclinical care and social welfare of U.S. Veterans through research, education and training on PTSD and stress-related disorders. An educational resource on PTSD and traumatic stress, for veterans and also for mental health care providers, researchers and the general public.

Vet Centers assisting veterans and their family members toward a successful post-war adjustment in or near their community. The program operates a system of 207 community based counseling centers. Staffed by small multi-disciplinary teams of dedicated providers, many of which are combat veterans themselves. Readjustment counseling and outreach services to all veterans who served in any combat zone. Services are also available for their family members for military related issues

While most of the resources on this site are specific to North Carolina, there are many useful information resources or may help the user locate a similar program in his or her state. This extensive list is produced by NC Health Info. This database of local links was the first resource of its kind to link local health services with corresponding information from MedlinePlus, the consumer health site maintained by the National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health. NLM has discontinued this link to MedlinePlus, but the information is still very useful.

the largest health care library network in the United States, providing library services and resources to Veteran inpatients and outpatients, their families, and caregivers; Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) staff and employees; and students and trainees in affiliated teaching programs. VALNET librarians provide knowledge-based information for clinical and management decision-making, research, and education to enhance the quality of care for Veterans enrolled in the VA Health Care System.