VA Healthcare System marks century of serving Mid-South veterans
Veterans salute the flag during a 100-year Anniversary celebration of the Memphis Veterans Affairs Health Care System on Monday, Aug. 15, 2022. The ceremony was held in the second-floor theater of the Memphis VA Medical Center at 1030 Jefferson Ave. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian)
The Memphis VA Healthcare System, which provides health care for military veterans in a three-state region, marked its centennial Monday at the Memphis VA Medical Center.
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Aisling Mäki covers health care, banking and finance, technology and professions. After launching her career in news two decades ago, she worked in public relations for almost a decade before returning to journalism in 2022.
As a health care reporter, she’s collaborated with The Carter Center, earned awards from the Associated Press and Society of Professional Journalists and won a 2024 Tennessee Press Association first-place prize for her series on discrepancies in Shelby County life expectancy by ZIP code.
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