Veteran VA Employee talks prosthetics, programs to help amputees

(Source -blogs.va.gov)

Bill Van Aken’s smile and wave are staples in VA Sierra Nevada’s prosthetics department. The Army Veteran has served in VA for the past 21 years, including stints as a rating specialist in VBA’s Reno office, and now with the past eight years in prosthetics.

Van Aken has seen a lot of changes within these facilities, but there’s one in particular that has impacted him more than others: Doorknobs.

Van Aken is an amputee. His coworkers playfully poke fun at his age, mentioning that he was there in person when they signed the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) 31 years ago on June 23, 1990.  Continue reading the blog here…

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