{"id":26080,"date":"2026-06-09T09:38:51","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T13:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=26080"},"modified":"2026-06-09T09:38:52","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T13:38:52","slug":"supporting-veterans-with-more-than-a-meal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=26080","title":{"rendered":"Supporting Veterans with more than a meal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(Source &#8211; news.va.gov)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Eastern Oklahoma VA social worker delivers food and hope to Veterans in need<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Each month, social worker Jennifer Edwards, a Department of Housing and Urban Development-Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing (HUD-VASH) case manager with the Eastern Oklahoma VA Health Care System (EOVAHCS), starts her morning by loading her car with bags of donated food from The Coffee Bunker, a Tulsa nonprofit dedicated to supporting Veterans. What looks like a simple delivery route is, for Edwards, one of the most meaningful parts of her work.  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/news.va.gov\/147236\/supporting-veterans-with-more-than-a-meal\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/news.va.gov\/147236\/supporting-veterans-with-more-than-a-meal\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"54\" class=\"wp-image-20064\" style=\"width: 225px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/VA-dept-of-vet-affairs.png\" alt=\"\" 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: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\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) Eastern Oklahoma VA social worker delivers food and hope to Veterans in need Each month, social worker<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[784,7],"tags":[382,1409,87,245],"class_list":["post-26080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-insecurity","category-veterans-benefits","tag-food-insecurity","tag-hud-va-supportive-housing-hud-vash-program","tag-veterans","tag-veterans-health-care"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26080","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=26080"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26081,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26080\/revisions\/26081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}