Beaver Dam VA Clinic

Our Nurse Advice Line provides free, confidential answers to you and your family's health care questions.

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Our laboratory provides a full range of clinical and diagnostic testing services. Services include:

• Study of blood, urine, and other bodily fluids for illness management
• Testing for infectious diseases
• Cytopathology (study of unusual cells) and surgical pathology (study of tissue removed during surgery)

Laboratory and pathology testing is done primarily at Madison VA Hospital, but patient samples can be collected at all of our local clinics. 

We promote the health, welfare, and dignity of all Veterans and their families. We focus on ensuring a safe and welcoming environment when providing you with sensitive and high-quality health care services like:

• Hormone therapy in limited circumstances
• Substance use and alcohol treatment
• Testing and treatment for HIV and sexually transmitted infections (STI)
• Mental health care

Learn more and connect with a care coordinator

Physical therapy, occupational therapy and kinesiotherapy can help restore movement and function if you have been disabled by injury or disease.

Based on the Veteran’s diagnosis, prognosis, and goals, therapists design and implement a customized and integrated plan of care in collaboration with the patient.

Services include:

• Personalized therapy for your rehabilitation
• Pain management
• Rehabilitation from injury: exercise progression, activity modification
• Improvement in functional mobility: gait training, adaptive equipment and durable medical equipment training, balance training, strengthening, prosthetics/orthotics, environmental modifications.
• Manual therapy, modalities, therapeutic exercise, dry needling, taping, prosthetics/orthotics.
• Management of age-related issues: balance training, falls assessment, vestibular testing/treatment, medication management, activities of daily living.

Your VA primary care provider will work closely with you to plan for all the care you need to stay healthy and well throughout your life, including immunizations and vaccinations. They will also work with family members or caregivers who support you.

Primary care offers eligible Veterans easy access to health care professionals who understand their needs. We provide long-term patient-provider relationships, coordinate care across different health services, and educate on disease prevention.

Primary care is your first contact point if you are enrolled in VHA health care. Contact your primary care physician for these services and more:

• Cancer screening (colon, breast, cervical, prostate, and others)
• High blood pressure and cholesterol screening and treatment
• Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) treatment
• Diabetes prevention and treatment
• Flu and other recommended vaccines
• Mental health, drug and alcohol screening
• Lab tests and blood work

Social workers can help Veterans and their families with referrals for:

• assistance in the home
• caregiver support
• transportation
• housing
• community services

Social work offers counseling:

• to veterans with drug, alcohol, and emotional problems
• to help veterans and their families understand and adjust to an illness or disability
• to veterans and family members who want to prepare advance directives for health care
• to help veterans and their families cope with terminal illness

Counseling is conducted through:

• one-on-one discussions
• family conferences
• group classes

We use secure digital technology to offer remote visits with our health care providers through onsite video conferencing and home telehealth services, allowing you to share your health information with VA experts. Telehealth visits are available with providers in:

• Primary care
• Mental health
• Rehabilitation
• Outpatient nutrition services
• Audiology
• Geriatrics
• Dermatology
• Hematology
• Teleretinal imaging
• Caregiver support
• Spirometry
• Neurology
• Palliative care
• Sleep medicine
• Cardiology

Learn more about telehealth

Every Veteran enrolled in VA health care will receive an initial screening and a follow-up screening at least once every 5 years from their primary care team. Veterans who are not enrolled and who meet eligibility requirements will have an opportunity to enroll and receive the screening.  

During the screening, your health care provider will ask you if you think you were exposed to any of these hazards while serving:

• Agent orange
• Airborne hazards and open burn pits
• Gulf War exposures
• Ionizing radiation
• Depleted uranium
• Toxic embedded fragments
   

Ask about getting a screening at your next VA health care appointment and learn more about VA Health Registries.

Whole Health empowers individuals to take charge of their health and well-being, focusing on what matters most to each person. It emphasizes mindful awareness, self-care, and the importance of nutrition, activity, sleep, relationships, and surroundings.

Whole Health supports person-centered, proactive care by integrating conventional treatment with Complementary & Integrative Health approaches, promoting self-empowerment, self-healing, and self-care.

Learn more about Whole Health.

We offer women’s health services to meet your specific needs such as disease screenings, mental health treatment, recovery from military sexual trauma, maternity care and female-specific medical equipment.

Learn more about women Veteran care.