Madison East VA Clinic

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

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We perform noninvasive and minimally invasive tests and procedures that check, support, and improve your heart health. We’ll work with you to develop a personalized treatment plan and treat you with the most effective medications. Our services include:

• Diagnosis and treat heart related conditions including heart disease, high blood pressure, arrhythmias and value problems through a combination of physical exams and specialized tests
• Monitoring you for changes in heart rhythm, using electrocardiograms (EKGs or ECGs), portable Holt monitors, or ultrasound

Services as specific locations include:

• Determining how well blood flows through your heart vessels
• Performing surgical treatments like pacemaker implants or cardiac catheterization (inserting a long, thin tube into an artery or vein)

We promote the health, welfare, and dignity of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) Veterans and their families. We focus on ensuring a safe, welcoming, and affirmative environment when providing you with sensitive and high-quality health care services like:

• Hormone therapy
• Substance use and alcohol treatment
• Testing and treatment for HIV and sexually transmitted infections (STI)
• Mental health care
• Psychosocial assessments for gender-affirming surgeries and hormone therapy

Learn more and connect with a care coordinator

Our laboratories provide a full range of clinical and diagnostic testing services. Our laboratory and pathology 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)
• Autopsy services

By participating in our MOVE! Weight Management Program, you can adopt a healthy lifestyle, meet your health goals, and manage your weight. If you have a higher body weight, losing 5%-10% of your weight can improve your health and give you more energy. MOVE! is about more than weight. It is about increasing your ability and confidence to achieve a healthy lifestyle.  We work with you to make practical changes for lasting results.

Learn more about our MOVE! Program.

The mental health service at the Madison VA Hospital & Clinics provides consultation, evaluation, and treatment for a variety of issues that can impact emotional well-being.

We conduct research and training to ensure state-of-the-art treatment.  Services are available at all locations by video.

Services Offered

Our mental health services include treatments for:

• depression, sadness, grief
• anxiety, worry, nervousness
• addictive behaviors
• relationship problems
• stress from medical problems and/or pain
• post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
• emotional problems, such as managing anger

Learn more and connect with a care coordinator

Confidentiality

Our mental health services are confidential. We will not talk to anyone about information you share unless you give written consent. If you have questions, please ask your mental health consultant.

Outpatient Nutrition Services

Our registered dietitians can help you maintain or improve your health with good nutrition tailored to your needs. Through group, individual, and telehealth sessions, we provide nutrition education and counseling in areas such as:

• Cardiovascular and heart health
• Chronic kidney disease
• Diabetes
• Eating disorders and digestive health
• Pregnancy and postpartum nutrition
• Weight management (MOVE! Program)

Learn more about our Outpatient Nutrition Services.

Inpatient Nutrition Services

Healthy and nourishing food is important in the recovery of the Veteran patient. When a patient gets admitted to the hospital, part of their treatment may include a dietitian visiting to discuss food and nutrition issues such as:

• Lack of appetite
• Nutrition related disease like diabetes and/or hypertension
• Weight loss/weight gain

Learn more about our Inpatient Nutrition Services.

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

We care for Veterans of all ages with treatment of sprains, strains, weakness, post-surgical and post-fracture rehabilitation involving the arms, legs and spine. Our licensed Physical Therapists perform comprehensive evaluations and design personalized treatment programs focused on whole-body health and enabling patients to reach their goals for lifestyle improvement.

Services provided at all locations include:

• Personalized therapy for your rehabilitation
• Medication, stretching, and massage for short-term pain relief
• Strengthening exercises and movement therapy to increase fitness and prevent future pain
• Occupational therapy to improve coordination and balance, and help you manage life skills and everyday activities

Specialty services provided at specific locations include:

• Cardiac/Pulmonary Rehabilitation
• Diabetic Foot Care and Management
• Pelvic Floor Dysfunction Treatment

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 gives eligible Veterans easy access to health care professionals familiar with their needs. It provides long-term patient-provider relationships, coordinates care across a spectrum of health services, educates, and offers disease prevention programs. 

Primary care is the foundation of VHA health care and is your first point of contact with the health care system for Veterans enrolled in VHA. Contact your primary care physician if you need any of these or other services:

• Colon, breast, cervical, prostate and other cancer screening
• High blood pressure and cholesterol screening and treatment
• Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) treatment
• Diabetes prevention and treatment
• Flu vaccine and other recommended vaccines
• Treatment for obesity
• Routine Women's health care across a lifespan
• Help quitting smoking
• Screening for mental health, drug and alcohol concerns
• Labs and blood work

We offer radiology imaging services to diagnose and treat many medical conditions. Our services include:

• Fluoroscopy Exams – All exams MUST be scheduled, not available at all locations.
• Ultrasound (US) – All exams MUST be scheduled, not available at all locations.
• Bone Density (DEXA) – All exams MUST be scheduled, not available at all locations.
• Computer Tomography (CT) – All exams MUST be scheduled, not available at all locations. 
• Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) – All exams MUST be scheduled, not available at all locations. 
• Interventional Radiology (IR) – All exams MUST be scheduled, not available at all locations.
• General X-ray – Walk-ins available based on location.

If you have any questions at all about your exams, please do not hesitate to call us and our staff will be happy to assist you.

Social Workers assist Veterans and their families with

• home health services
• legal services
• transportation
• community living

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 and durable powers of attorney for health care or finances
• to help veterans and their families cope with terminal illness
• to family members about legal issues such as commitment and guardianship

Counseling is conducted through:

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

We use the latest in secure digital technology to set up remote visits with our health care providers. We offer video conferencing and home telehealth services that lets you securely share your health information with experts at VA facilities. We offer telehealth visits with providers in:

• Primary care
• Mental health
• Rehabilitation
• Outpatient Nutrition Services
• Geriatrics
• Dermatology
• Hematology
• Caregiver Support
• Spirometry
• Neurology
• Palliative Care
• Sleep Medicine
• Cardiology

Learn more about telehealth

Whole Health is an approach to health care that empowers and equips people to take charge of their health and well-being and to live their life to the fullest.

Whole Health focuses on what matters most to each of us. It empowers people through mindful awareness and self-care, recognizing the fundamental importance of healthy nutrition, activity, sleep, relationships, surroundings, and the many other areas of our lives that contribute to our health and wholeness.

Whole Health supports person-centered, proactive, whole-person care. The Whole Health System includes conventional treatment, Complementary & Integrative Health approaches, and focuses on 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.

Women Veteran services provided at all clinics:  

• Cervical cancer screening (Pap & HPV testing)

Learn about additional Women Veteran Care provided at the Madison VA and connect with the Women Veteran Program Manager.