VA, MHS & international visitors talk relationships during Warrior Care in 21st Century symposium

Dr. Linda Spoonster Schwartz, assistant secretary for policy and planning for the Department of Veterans Affairs, spoke at a panel discussion on international and interagency relationships on October 27, 2016, at James A. Haley Veterans' Hospital in Tampa, Florida. She told the panel's audience about VA's mission to continue providing long term and extended care for veterans, calling them "our footprints in communities." She touched on the importance of teamwork, saying that paving the way from Department of Defense to VA during transition is very important for veterans. (MHS photo)

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