{"id":24416,"date":"2025-05-22T08:25:23","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T12:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=24416"},"modified":"2025-05-22T08:25:24","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T12:25:24","slug":"veteran-goes-from-homeless-and-bedbound-to-independent-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=24416","title":{"rendered":"Veteran goes from homeless and bedbound to independent again"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(Source &#8211; news.va.gov)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When Navy Veteran Stephen Gomez was first admitted to the Sepulveda Ambulatory Care Center\u2019s Community Living Center (CLC), he weighed less than 90 pounds. He didn\u2019t have a place to live, was bedbound and couldn\u2019t lift his head to look anyone in the eye.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, just 17 months later, Gomez can walk again, lives independently and has his own apartment in a brand-new Veteran\u2019s community in the Antelope Valley, Danny\u2019s Home for Heroes. This remarkable recovery was the result of hard work, persistence and the CLC staff never giving up on him.  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/news.va.gov\/140119\/veteran-from-homeless-bedbound-to-independent\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/news.va.gov\/140119\/veteran-from-homeless-bedbound-to-independent\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/VA-dept-of-vet-affairs.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"418\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/VA-dept-of-vet-affairs.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20064\" style=\"width:188px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/VA-dept-of-vet-affairs.png 418w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/VA-dept-of-vet-affairs-300x72.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 418px) 100vw, 418px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>\u00a0The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Source &#8211; news.va.gov) When Navy Veteran Stephen Gomez was first admitted to the Sepulveda Ambulatory Care Center\u2019s Community Living Center<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[246,7],"tags":[1628,981,87,245],"class_list":["post-24416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homelessness","category-veterans-benefits","tag-homeless","tag-homeless-veteran","tag-veterans","tag-veterans-health-care"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24416"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24417,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24416\/revisions\/24417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}