Ocala VA Clinic
The Ocala VA Clinic provides a broad range of general and specialized medical, psychiatric, nursing, and ancillary services. HOURS OF OPERATION are Monday-Friday 7:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. (closed Sat/Sun/holidays) If you are a Veteran in crisis or concerned about one, please call the Veterans Crisis Line: dial 988, then press 1. The VCL is private and free - caring, qualified responders, many of whom are Veterans themselves, are available 24/7. You can also call 911, go to the nearest Emergency Room, or to the nearest VA medical center anytime, day or night.
Location and contact information
Address
Phone numbers
Facility hours
Hours may vary for different services. Select a service on this page to check the hours.
- Mon: 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
- Tue: 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
- Wed: 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
- Thu: 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
- Fri: 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
- Sat: Closed
- Sun: Closed
Prepare for your visit
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Cost: Free
Wheelchair availability: Wheelchairs are available upon arrival for patients who need them to access the building.
Van services for Veterans
DAV vans
Hours: Individual van schedules vary
We work with Disabled American Veterans and county Veterans Affairs directors to provide transportation for Veterans and authorized caregivers to get to scheduled medical appointments.
Non-DAV van services
Many localities in the region provide other van services to Veterans.
Learn more about DAV and the other van services available in your county
Beneficiary travel
Beneficiary travel benefits include round-trip transportation from your home to the medical center, mileage reimbursement, or special mode transport.
Other services at VA North Florida/South Georgia health care
Health services offered here
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Advice nurse
Appointments
Contact us to schedule, reschedule, or cancel your appointment. If a referral is required, you’ll need to contact your primary care provider first.
Main Phone
Main Phone
Service Hours
The service hours are the same as our facility hours.
The registered nurses on our Nurse Advice Line provide you and your family with helpful medical advice and free, confidential answers to many of your health care questions. Call anytime. We’re here 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. In addition, our nurses can:
- Help you manage many of your basic health care needs
- Answer questions about your current medications or medical condition
- Discuss your health care concerns and help you decide the best way to handle them
- Offer improved access to VA services
COVID-19 vaccines
Common conditions: coronavirus, COVID-19
Appointments
Contact us to schedule, reschedule, or cancel your appointment. If a referral is required, you’ll need to contact your primary care provider first.
Please call to schedule, reschedule, or cancel your appointment
- COVID-19 vaccines for eligible Veterans and staff
Vaccines are available at the following NF/SG Veterans Health System locations:
- Gainesville Primary Care VA Clinic - 5469 SW 34th St. Gainesville, FL 32608
- Vaccine type available - Pfizer BioNTech Moderna
- Appointment Preferred
- Location within facility - Primary Care Clinics (where provider is located).
- Monday- Friday 8:00 a.m.- 3:00 p.m.
- Lake City VAMC - 619 S. Marion Ave Lake City, FL 32025
- Vaccine type available - Pfizer BioNTech Moderna
- Appointment Preferred
- Location within facility - Primary Care Waiting Room (located on 2nd floor in the Orange & Blue waiting area)
- Wednesdays, 8:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
- Leo C. Chase Jr. VA Clinic - 100 Deerfield Preserve Blvd St. Augustine, FL 32086
- Vaccine type available - Moderna
- Appointment Preferred
- Location within facility - Clinic Conference Room
- Every 3rd Thursday of the month, (starting 10/19/23) 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
- Will start October 17, 2024
- The Villages Outpatient Clinic - 8900 Southeast 165th Mulberry Lane The Villages, FL 32162-5884
- Vaccine type available - Pfizer BioNTech Moderna
- Appointments Required
- Location within facility - PC Walk-in Clinic
- Wednesdays, 8:30 a.m.- 3:00 p.m.
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Sergeant Ernest I. "Boots" Thomas VA Clinic - 2181 East Orange Avenue Tallahassee, FL 32311-6144
- Vaccine type available - Moderna
- Appointment Preferred
- 1st Floor, Walk-In Clinic (WIC)
- Tuesdays & Thursdays, 1:00p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
- Perry CBOC - 1224 North Peacock Ave. Perry, FL 32347
- Vaccine type available - Moderna
- By Appointment.
- 4th Thursday of every month
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10:45 a.m.-12:30pm.
- Jacksonville Outpatient Clinic - 1536 N. Jefferson Street Jacksonville, FL 32209
- Vaccine type available - Pfizer BioNTech Moderna
- Appointments Preferred
- Location within facility - Eval Clinic, 1st floor
- Thursdays 8:30 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
- Jacksonville University - 3901 University Boulevard South Jacksonville, FL 32216-4312
- Vaccine type available - Pfizer BioNTech Moderna
- By Appointment. Primary Care.
- Wednesdays
- 9:00 a.m. -11:00 a.m.
- Jacksonville North - 145 Heron Bay Rd. Jacksonville, FL 32218-2670
- Vaccine type available - Pfizer BioNTech Moderna
- By Appointment. Primary Care
- Wednesdays
- 8:30 a.m.-3:00 p.m.
- Valdosta CBOC - 348 Enterprise Drive, Suite B Valdosta, GA 31601-5169
- Vaccine type available - Moderna
- Appointment Preferred
- Every other Wednesday (starting 10/02/24)
- 1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m.
- Palatka CBOC - 400 North State Road 19, Suite 48 Palatka, FL 32177-2449
- Vaccine type available - Moderna
- Appointment Preferred 1st & 3rd Thursdays (starting 10/02/24)
- 12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
- Marianna CBOC - 4970 Highway 90 Marianna, FL 32446-6802
- Vaccine type available - Moderna
- Appointment Preferred
- Every other Wednesday
- 10:45 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
- Middleburg CBOC - 400 College Drive, Suite 200 Middleburg, FL 32068-8525
- Vaccine type available - Moderna
- Appointment Preferred
- 1st Wednesday of month (starting 10/02/2024)
- 1:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
- Ocala CBOC - 4826 SW 49 Road Ocala, FL 34474
- Vaccine type available - Moderna
- By Appointment
- Check in at main reception area, Thursdays only
- 1:00p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
- St. Marys CBOC - 2603 Osborne Road, Kings Bay Village, Suite E St. Marys, GA 31558-3843
- Vaccine type available - Moderna
- Appointment Only
- Wednesdays- Immunization Clinic
- 8:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
- Waycross CBOC - 515B City Boulevard, City Square Plaza Waycross, GA 31501-8016
- Vaccine type available - Moderna
- Appointment Only
- 2nd Tuesday of the month (starting 10/08/2024)
- 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Homeless Veteran care
Appointments
Contact us to schedule, reschedule, or cancel your appointment. If a referral is required, you’ll need to contact your primary care provider first.
Main Phone
Main Phone
HCHV Program
HCHV Program
Service Hours
The service hours are the same as our facility hours.
We help Veterans who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless due to financial hardship, unemployment, addiction, depression, or transition from jail. Contact one of our care coordinators to get help with:
- Immediate food and shelter needs, including both transitional and permanent housing
- Job training, life skills development, and education
- Justice system navigation and community reentry from jail
- Financial support to prevent homelessness
- Addiction and depression treatment
- Health and dental care
Intimate partner violence support
Appointments
The VA Intimate Partner Violence Assistance Program provides services and resources to Veterans, caregivers, their families, and VA employees.
Main Phone
Intimate Partner Violence Assistance Program Coordinator
Intimate Partner Violence Assistance Program Coordinator
Service Hours
- Mon. 7:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
- Tue. 7:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
- Wed. 7:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
- Thu. 7:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
- Fri. 7:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
- Sat. Closed
- Sun. Closed
The VA Intimate Partner Violence Assistance Program provides services and resources to Veterans, caregivers, their families and VA employees. The goal of the program is to focus on health and safety in relationships.
Types of Intimate Partner Violence
Men and Women experience intimate partner violence. The number could be twice as high for the veteran population. Intimate Partner Violence consists of the following:
- Physical Abuse-Intentional Use of Physical Force
- Emotional Abuse-Trauma caused by acts, threats of acts or coercive tactics.
- Sexual Abuse-Unwanted sexual activity or sexual touching; nonphysical such as sexting where consent is not given.
- Stalking(Cyberstalking)-A pattern of unwanted attention; in person or virtually that causes fear for safety.
- Financial Abuse-Controlling Money & Ruining Credit.
Intimate partner violence can affect both women and men. North Florida/South Georgia Veteran Health System Intimate Partner Violence Assistance Program Coordinators who can assist Veterans, significant others, caregivers and VA employees who use or experience intimate partner violence in their relationships by linking them with VA or community resources.
For questions or support, contact your local Intimate Partner Violence Assistance Program Coordinator(s) at
Resources
- Read more about the Intimate Partner Violence Assistance Program on the national page at https://www.socialwork.va.gov/IPV/About.asp
- Intimate Partner Violence Assistance Program (IPVAP) General Program Fact Sheet
- Video: Women’s Health: Relationship Health Safety Screening Information
- Video: Health Safety Screening Information Safety Screening Information
- Video: Relationship Health and Safety
Florida domestic violence hotline
- 1-
Georgia domestic violence hotline
- 1-
Laboratory and pathology
Appointments
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Main Phone
Main Phone
Service Hours
The service hours are the same as our facility hours.
Our laboratories provide a full range of clinical and diagnostic testing services. Our laboratory and pathology services include:
- Surgical pathology (study of biopsy tissue and tissue removed during surgery)
- Cytopathology (study of cells, pap tests, body fluids)
- Testing for infectious diseases
- Cytopathology (study of unusual cells) and surgical pathology (study of tissue removed during surgery)
- Autopsy services for hospital patients
Mental health care
Common conditions: addiction, depression, anxiety, trauma, PTSD, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, OCD
Appointments
Contact us to schedule, reschedule, or cancel your appointment. If a referral is required, you’ll need to contact your primary care provider first.
Includes both mental health counseling and psychiatry/medication management
Main Phone
Service Hours
The service hours are the same as our facility hours.
Our medical center and clinics provide consultation, evaluation, and treatment for a range of issues that may impact your mental health or emotional well-being. Our confidential outpatient services include individual and group therapy for:
Same day access: A Veteran Walk In to be assessed/triaged by a Provider, for non-life threatening/non-emergent needs within any clinic location (during regular business hours).
Primary care is the preferred entry point for accessing mental health services at the VA to enhance coordination of care. However, a Veteran may also be seen in any of the Mental Health clinics.
Contact the Veterans Primary Care Provider to inquire as to PCMHI (Primary Care Mental Health Integration) care.
(If unsure of Veterans Primary Care Provider, contact
The PCMHI Team may be a separate specialty clinic of providers or may be within the Veterans Primary Care team or Mental Health Clinic. Veterans may be seen within PCMHI for 4-8 weeks of services at this access point. Additional referrals can be made from PCMHI to MH Clinic services and Other Specialty Clinics.
Nutrition, food, and dietary care
Appointments
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Main Phone
Location
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Service Hours
The service hours are the same as our facility hours.
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 (including gestational diabetes)
- Eating disorders and digestive health
- Pregnancy and postpartum nutrition
- Weight management
Primary care
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.
Appointments
Contact us to schedule, reschedule, or cancel your appointment. If a referral is required, you’ll need to contact your primary care provider first.
Main Phone
Main Phone
Service Hours
The service hours are the same as our facility hours.
A strong network of family and internal medicine specialists and services can offer you the best possible care. Internal medicine doctors (internists) prevent, diagnose, and treat adult diseases. Doctors who specialize in family medicine provide primary health care to the entire family. Your primary care team can coordinate the many services you receive such as:
- Labs and blood work
- Mental health care
- Womens health care
- Radiology
- Social services
- Telehealth
Psychiatry
If you’re struggling with a mental health problem—or just need to talk with someone—we can help. We offer treatment and support such as therapy, alternative treatments and medications when needed.
Appointments
Contact us to schedule, reschedule, or cancel your appointment. If a referral is required, you’ll need to contact your primary care provider first.
Main Phone
Main Phone
Service Hours
The service hours are the same as our facility hours.
Good mental health is a vital part of your overall wellness. Our psychiatry teams offer consultation, evaluation, and treatment to help you with a range of mental and behavioral health problems, including:
- Depression (including sadness and grief), anxiety (including worry and nervousness), and personality disorders
- Addictive behaviors and substance abuse
- Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and combat-related stress disorder
- Emotional issues like anger management and relationship challenges, confused thinking, memory problems, and invasive thoughts or ideas
- Aggressive or self-harming behaviors
Returning service member care
If you’re returning from military service, we can help you readjust to civilian life and get started with VA health care. We can also help connect you with programs like mental health services and education and career counseling.
Appointments
If you’re returning from military service, we can help you readjust to civilian life and get started with VA health care. We can also help connect you with programs.
Main Phone
M2VA program contact
M2VA program email
Service Hours
The service hours are the same as our facility hours.
We can help you readjust to civilian life if you’re returning from military service, on active duty, or an activated National Guard or Reserve member. Talk to one of our care coordinators about how to best use your health care benefits.
- Polytrauma care (if you have multiple traumatic injuries)
- Counseling and rehabilitation
- Mental and behavioral health services
- Family benefits counseling and assistance
- Referral assistance
Telehealth
Appointments
Contact us to schedule, reschedule, or cancel your appointment. If a referral is required, you’ll need to contact your primary care provider first.
Main Phone
Main Phone
Service Hours
The service hours are the same as our facility hours.
We use the latest in secure digital technology to set up remote visits with our health care providers. We offer video conferencing, home telehealth services, and store-and-forward telehealth that lets you securely send your health information to experts at VA facilities. We offer telehealth visits with providers in:
- Mental health
- Retinal care (eye)
- Bariatric surgery (visit remotely with your weight-loss surgery team before and after your operation)
- Dermatology
- Rehabilitation
- Primary care
Toxic exposure screening
Common conditions: War-related exposure, open burn pit exposure, airborne hazards exposure, Gulf War-related exposure, Gulf War Illness, Agent Orange exposure, radiation exposure, Camp Lejeune contaminated water exposure
Appointments
Contact us to schedule, reschedule, or cancel your appointment. If a referral is required, you’ll need to contact your primary care provider first.
Main Phone
Main Phone
Service Hours
The service hours are the same as our facility hours.
All Veterans enrolled in VA health care can receive a toxic exposure screening at an upcoming appointment or sooner by contacting a Toxic Exposure Screening Navigator. All enrolled Veterans should receive the screening at least once every five years.
Whole health
Appointments
Whole health puts you at the center of care, rather than your illnesses or conditions. We work with you to develop a personalized health plan based on your values, needs, and goals.
Whole Health Coaching
Main Phone
Service Hours
The service hours are the same as our facility hours.
Our whole health approach empowers and equips you to take charge of your health, well-being, and quality of life. Whole health goes beyond your illnesses, injuries, or disabilities, and focuses instead on your values, goals, and overall health. It includes self-care and complementary therapies along with conventional medical care. Our whole health program includes:
- Acupuncture to help you manage pain without drugs
- Meditation and mindfulness training
- Yoga, tai chi, and qi gong classes
- Massage and manual therapy
- and much more.
Learn more about Whole Health at https://www.va.gov/north-florida-health-care/programs/whole-health