{"id":15430,"date":"2015-03-02T10:00:01","date_gmt":"2015-03-02T15:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rosseducation.edu\/?p=15430"},"modified":"2015-03-02T10:00:01","modified_gmt":"2015-03-02T15:00:01","slug":"portage-gives-valentines-vets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rosseducation.edu\/blog\/portage-gives-valentines-vets\/","title":{"rendered":"Portage Gives Valentines to Vets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/rosseducation.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Ross-Medical-Education-Center-Portage-Valentines-for-Vets-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/rosseducation.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Ross-Medical-Education-Center-Portage-Valentines-for-Vets-1-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Ross Medical Education Center Portage Valentines for Vets\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15432\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rosseducation.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Ross-Medical-Education-Center-Portage-Valentines-for-Vets-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rosseducation.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Ross-Medical-Education-Center-Portage-Valentines-for-Vets-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/rosseducation.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Ross-Medical-Education-Center-Portage-Valentines-for-Vets-1.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>For the second year in a row, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rosseducation.edu\" title=\"Ross Medical Education Center\">Ross Medical Education Center<\/a> campus in <a href=\"https:\/\/rosseducation.edu\/campus\/michigan\/portage\/\" title=\"Ross Medical Education Center Portage Campus\">Portage<\/a> held a Valentines for Vets event. Students from the <a href=\"\/programs\/medical-assistant\/\" title=\"Ross Medical Education Center Medical Assistant program\">Medical Assistant<\/a>, <a href=\"\/programs\/medical-insurance-billing-and-office-administration\/\" title=\"Ross Medical Education Center Medical Insurance Billing and Office Administration program\">Medical Insurance Billing and Office Administration<\/a>, <a href=\"\/programs\/dental-assistant\/\" title=\"Ross Medical Education Center Dental Assistant program\">Dental Assistant<\/a>, and <a href=\"\/programs\/Veterinary-Assistant\/\" title=\"Ross Medical Education Center Veterinary Assistant program\">Veterinary Assistant<\/a> programs made 100 Valentine&#8217;s Day cards by hand for veterans this February. Once all of the cards were completed, they were then delivered by Karrie Messenger, Career Development Representative, to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.battlecreek.va.gov\/\" title=\"Battle Creek VA Medical Center\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">VA Medical Center<\/a> in Battle Creek, Michigan. They were distributed to hospitalized veterans of the United States Armed Forces on Friday, February 13th to hopefully bring a little happiness and love to them this cold winter.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rosseducation.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Ross-Medical-Education-Center-Portage-Valentines-for-Vets.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/rosseducation.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Ross-Medical-Education-Center-Portage-Valentines-for-Vets-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Ross Medical Education Center Portage Valentines for Vets\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-15431\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rosseducation.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Ross-Medical-Education-Center-Portage-Valentines-for-Vets-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rosseducation.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Ross-Medical-Education-Center-Portage-Valentines-for-Vets-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rosseducation.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Ross-Medical-Education-Center-Portage-Valentines-for-Vets.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The VA Medical Center in Battle Creek has been in operation since 1924 and offers a wide-range of health care services to a 20-county area of southwestern Michigan. According to their website, their vision is \u201cto be a patient centered integrated health care organization for Veterans providing excellence in healthcare, research, and education; an organization where people choose to work; an active community partner and a back-up for national emergencies.\u201d Karrie, Portage\u2019s Career Development Representative, delivered the valentines to a VA representative. When the cards were delivered, Karrie said, \u201cthe VA representative thanked our students for taking the time to honor the veterans.\u201d The VA distributed the cards to veterans who are currently being treated at the hospital facility.<\/p>\n<p>This event gives our students, faculty, and staff a chance to recognize and thank our local veterans for their service. Many organizations collect cards and letters for veterans around Christmas and Thanksgiving, but the campus wanted to be sure that these local heroes were remembered and thanked at other times throughout the year as well. Valentine\u2019s Day is a holiday where many are overlooked, and the Ross Portage community got to be a part of changing that. Everyone at the campus enjoys holding this event each year to show their appreciation to veterans in their community.<\/p>\n<p><em>More information about the VA Medical Center in Battle Creek can be found here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.battlecreek.va.gov\/about\/index.asp\" title=\"Battle Creek VA Medical Center\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.battlecreek.va.gov\/about\/index.asp<\/a>.<\/em><em>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the second year in a row, the Ross Medical Education Center campus in Portage held a Valentines for Vets&hellip;<br \/><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/rosseducation.edu\/blog\/portage-gives-valentines-vets\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15432,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosseducation.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15430"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosseducation.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosseducation.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosseducation.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosseducation.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rosseducation.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosseducation.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosseducation.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosseducation.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosseducation.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}