Music for Our Military in Michigan

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John D. Dingell Medical Center
The John D. Dingell Veteran Medical Center is one of the newest VA facilities in the countryand provides service to more than 330,000 Veterans living in Wayne, Oakland, Macomb, and St. Clair counties. This population represents approximately forty-four percent of the Veteran population in the lower peninsula of Michigan.



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"Once again, please accept my thanks for your ongoing support of our veterans and our medical center. It is greatly appreciated"

William R. Browning
Chief, Voluntary Service - Detroit, Michigan





Ann Arbor Medical Center

Since 1953, the Veteran Ann Arbor Healthcare System (VAAAHS) has provided state-of-the-art healthcare services to the nearly 57,000 Veterans living in a 15-county area of Michigan and northwest Ohio utilized the VAAAHS.

The main hospital campus located in Ann Arbor serves as a referral center for specialty care and operates 105 acute care beds and 40 Community Living Center (extended care) beds. More than 455,000 outpatient visits were made at our facilities in fiscal year 2011; there were nearly 6,000 inpatient episodes of care provided in the hospital and extended care center.



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"Your thoughtfulness reflects the concern that you feel for our veterans and for the service they provided to all of us while in service to our country"

Beverly Leneski, CAVS
Chief, Voluntary Service  - Ann Arbor, Michigan





Battle Creek Medical Center

The Battle Creek Veteran Medical Center consists of 104 medical and psychiatric beds, 32 residential rehabilitation beds, and 103 nursing home care unit beds. In addition, specialized services offered include a Palliative Care Unit, a Substance Abuse Clinic, a Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Program and a Domicilliary.

Since 1924, the Battle Creek, Michigan Veteran Medical Center has been improving the health of the men and women who have so proudly served our nation and consider it a privilege to provide services to more than 217,000 Veterans living in a 20-county area of western Michigan.




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"The donations provided to our Veteran population reflects the concern that you feel toward our Veterans and for all they provided while in service to our country. Veterans who come to our clinic have used the music to perform/record for the annual National Veterans Creative Arts competition"

Dana M. Castanier & Sharalyn Walkons-Davis
Creative Arts Therapist/Music

Therapeutic Recreation Section, Social Work Service- Battle Creek, Michigan



"Thanks to your support from the Music For Our Military Program, the Veterans will have the opportunity to play many of these songs"

Nancy E. Babcock, CAVS
Chief, Voluntary Service - Battle Creek, Michigan




Aleda E. Lutz VAMC Saginaw, Michigan
Since 1950, the Aleda E. Lutz Veteran Medical Center has been improving the health of the men and women who have so proudly served our nation. They consider it their privilege to provide services to more than 28,000 veterans living in the Central and Northern 35 counties of Michigan's Lower Peninsula.



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Jason Christianson, BBA
Voluntary Service Program Manager - Saginaw, Michigan




Oscar G. Johnson VAMC Iron Mountain Michigan
Oscar G. Johnson Veteran Medical Center is located in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.  The facility oversees community-based outpatient clinics (CBOC) in Michigan (Ironwood, Hancock, Marquette, Sault Ste. Marie and Menominee) and Wisconsin (Rhinelander) that serve 15 counties in Michigan and 10 counties in Wisconsin.

It also operates a rural outreach clinic in Manistique, Michigan. The OGJVAMC has the largest geographic patient service area east of the Mississippi River, home to approximately 53,000 Veterans, 23,863 of whom are enrolled in VA’s health care system. Five hundred eighty staff, including 30 physicians and over 140 nurses, provides primary and selected secondary care.  Volunteers provide a wide variety of services.




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Gregory C, Weiss
Chief of Voluntary Services - Iron Mountain, Michigan




Special "Thanks" to the following:

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