{"id":192766,"date":"2026-05-14T23:45:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T23:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/192766\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T23:45:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T23:45:20","slug":"erie-va-medical-center-celebrates-75-years-of-dedication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/192766\/","title":{"rendered":"Erie VA Medical Center celebrates 75 years of dedication"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Erie VA Medical Center celebrated an important milestone on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The medical center was dedicated in 1951. Thursday, staff, veterans and community partners came together to celebrate 75 years of making a difference for those who served our country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.yourerie.com\/digital-first\/digital-exclusive\/greg-moyers-law-to-ensure-aed-presence-in-high-school-sports\/?ipid=promo-link-block1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Greg Moyer\u2019s Law to ensure AED presence in high school sports;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Greg Moyer\u2019s Law to ensure AED presence in high school sports&quot;}\"> Greg Moyer\u2019s Law to ensure AED presence in high school sports <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Awards and recognitions given to the center were presented, followed by a special ceremony where those in attendance had the chance to make history by signing a metal beam being installed inside a new expansion on campus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cOur mission is simple. We put veterans first in everything we do. Over the years, we\u2019ve earned top trust scores in all VA for the work that our staff do. In 2022 and 2025, we were honored to receive the VA Best Experience Award across all of our health care systems,\u201d said John Gennaro, the director of the Erie VA Medical Center.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The VA center addition is scheduled to be finished by this summer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yourerie.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WJET\/WFXP\/YourErie.com.;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WJET\/WFXP\/YourErie.com.&quot;}\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WJET\/WFXP\/YourErie.com. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Erie VA Medical Center celebrated an important milestone on Thursday. The medical center was dedicated in 1951.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192767,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137,15043],"class_list":["post-192766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-erie-va-medical-center"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}