Syracuse VA Medical Center is located in the Syracuse University Hill area. It is a tertiary care facility that provides comprehensive medical, surgical, rehabilitation, transitional care and psychiatric services. Patients at this medical center are veterans of military service who have a spectrum of medical, psychiatric, and psychological disorders.
Veterans from all periods of military service are treated for the full range of psychopathological disorders, and chronic pains or medical problems likewise, substance use disorders, neurological disease or damage, and vocational difficulties.
Moreover, Syracuse VA Medical Center provides specialized medical services including cardiac, ambulatory care, maternity, medical, oncology, post traumatic stress disorder, as well as, outpatient services in Emergency, and Primary Care. As in the other facilities of VA Healthcare Network, all the services are provided by the most experienced physicians, nurses and therapists supported by state-of-the-art techniques and equipments for diagnosing and treatment of illnesses.
Joining the excellence in medical services, Syracuse VA Medical Center has several hospital services that provide the most comfortable stay, to patients, their love ones and visitors. Some of those services include Shuttle Services, Pastoral Care, Inpatient and Outpatient Pharmacy, Voluntary Service (approximately 800 volunteers contribute with thousands of hours in a wide range of activities), Veterans Services Center, where patients are able to update insurance or personal information; Patient Education an extensive group of programs and classes related to different illnesses to help patients be healthy or have a better recovery; Internet Services, On Demand Television Health Information Programming, Health Touch, Interpreter Services, and Guide and Service Dogs.
The Syracuse VA Medical Center has eight community based, primary care VA outpatient clinics. The clinics were founded to provide high quality care services, closer to home for the veterans? convenience.