Locating a VAHospital and Exercising your Benefits

When you are a veteran searching for medical care, knowing where to go and how to properly exercise your benefits can be a complicated process. If you throw in an emergency medical situation or a serious medical condition, knowing what VAHospital to go to and how to ensure that your insurance and benefits will cover what you need becomes an even trickier and urgent process. Fortunately, some of the information that you need can be easily navigated on the VA website.

Whether you need to know about benefit information on where a VA Hospital is located, you can go to the government website to get more information. Va.gov/directory will allow you to search for a VA Hospital by state. You can either click on a state or enter a zip code to find the nearest 5 VA Hospitals or to find out if there is a VAHospital within 10 miles. The also break down the VA Hospitals by type of hospital and will tell you the number of VHAs, VBAs, or NCAs in each state. For VA benefit information you can call 1-800-827-1000.

There are 21 Veterans Integrated Service Networks (VISN) that cover large areas throughout the United States and US Territories. Some of the more frequently called VA Hospitals are as follows: Washington DC VA Medical Center (888) 553-0242, VA Heart of Texas Health Care Network (817) 652-1111, Desert Pacific Health Care Network in California (562) 826-5963, VA NY/NJ Veterans Healthcare Network (718) 741-4110, VA Sunshine Healthcare Network in Florida 727-319-1125, VA Southwest Healthcare Network in AZ (602) 222-2681, and Rocky Mountain Network in Colorado (303) 756-9279. You can find out information on any other VAHospital by going to the official VA website.

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