Alvin C. York Veterans' Administration Medical Center

Care we provide at VA Tennessee Valley health care

We help Veterans on their recovery journey through outpatient and inpatient services. Our residential facility helps Veterans deal with substance abuse, homelessness, mental health, and unemployment through its 24-hour therapeutic and educational programs like:

• Rehabilitation
• Health maintenance
• Community support

We diagnose and treat conditions affecting your hearing, speech or balance. These include hearing loss, tinnitus (noise or ringing the ears) and dizziness—also speech, language, voice or swallowing disorders.

Care we provide at VA Tennessee Valley health care

Our Audiology services provided: 

• Hearing evaluations
• Selection, management, and repair of hearing aids and assistive listening devices
• Evaluation, programming, and management of cochlear implants and bone-anchored implants
• Evaluation and management of tinnitus
• Initial evaluation and referrals for balance/dizziness.

Our Speech Pathology services provided:

• Dysphagia evaluation (swallowing) including modified barium swallow studies
• Voice disorders
• Gender Affirming Voice Therapy
• Laryngectomy rehabilitation (including TEP voice prostheses)
• Motor speech disorders
• Augmentative and alternative communication devices
• Dysfluency
• Cognitive reorganization (dementia)
• Cognitive-communication disorders

Please note that VA compensation and pension examinations are provided by the Compensation and Pension Service. Learn more about VA hearing aids

We offer advanced vision care and blind rehabilitation services to help you live independently. These may include vision-enhancing devices and technology as well as visual skills and related training.

Care we provide at VA Tennessee Valley health care

Our low vision outpatient clinic can assess your needs and provide a rehab plan tailored to your personal goals. Our team of specialists and social workers will work with you to find the right aids and services. Our clinic services include:

• Comprehensive eye exams
• Visual skills assessments
• Guidance on how to develop visual motor and perceptual skills
• Training to help you manage daily activities with your vision loss

Care we provide at VA Tennessee Valley health care

• COVID-19 vaccines for eligible Veterans and staff

Learn more about COVID-19 vaccines at VA

Our specialists evaluate and treat conditions and diseases of the brain, spine, and nervous system, including headache, stroke, Alzheimer's disease, epilepsy, Parkinson’s disease and other conditions.

Care we provide at VA Tennessee Valley health care

We provide inpatient and outpatient services for chronic diseases and disorders that affect your brain, spine, and the nerves that connect them. Our neurologists read electroencephalogram (EEG) recordings, which measure the electrical impulses brain cells use to communicate with each other. We evaluate and treat many neurological illnesses and disorders such as:

• Neuropathy (nerve damage), myelopathy and other spinal cord injuries, and radiculopathy (pinched nerves)
• Parkinson’s disease, epilepsy, and multiple sclerosis
• Stroke, dementia, and degenerative diseases
• Other neurological conditions

Our specialists provide a full range of services to help you get and understand your prescription medicines and supplies. You can refill VA prescriptions online, by phone or by mail.

Care we provide at VA Tennessee Valley Healthcare System

Our pharmacy provides Veterans with convenient, efficient service to make it easy to get your medications and medical supplies. At our Alvin C. York and Nashville campuses, you can:

• Pick up new prescriptions in person
• Refill prescriptions online at www.myhealth.va.gov and by phone or mail
• Safely dispose of medicines

Our community-based outpatient clinics have pharmacist consultants available, but our pharmacies are solely located at the Alvin C. York and Nashville campuses.

Learn more about our pharmacy

If you’re living with a traumatic brain injury, amputation or other disability, our specialists offer support to help you improve your independence and quality of life, manage pain and stay healthy.

Care we provide at VA Tennessee Valley Healthcare System

Our physical medicine and rehabilitation doctors and therapists focus on whole-body health. They can help you manage your pain, increase your independence, and improve your quality of life with services like:

• Physical therapy
• Occupational therapy
• Recreational therapy
• Kinesiotherapy
• EMG (nerve and muscle testing)
• Physicians can provide evaluation and non-surgical treatment of musculoskeletal (muscle, joint) conditions
• Amputation clinic
• Wheelchair clinic

Certain services are offered at select locations. At the Alvin C. York VA Medical Center, we provide physical therapy, occupational therapy, kinesiotherapy, recreational therapy, and EMG. The Nashville VA Medical Center offers physical therapy, occupational therapy, and EMG. At the Clarksville and Chattanooga VA clinics, we provide physical therapy. 

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. They will also work with family members or caregivers who support you.

Care we provide at VA Tennessee Valley health care

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
• Women's health care
• Radiology
• Social services
• Telehealth

Care we provide at VA Tennessee Valley Healthcare System

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

At the Nashville VA Medical Center, we provide x-rays, ultrasounds, mammography, CTs, PETs, MRIs, nuclear medicine and interventional radiology. The Alvin C. York VA Medical Center offers general radiology services, mammography, ultrasounds, MRIs, CTs and nuclear medicine services.  

The Clarksville VA Clinic offers general radiology services, and the Chattanooga VA Clinic offers x-rays, ultrasounds, and CTs. 

We offer a wide range of activities (arts and crafts, games, sports, exercise) that we can adapt to your needs.

Care we provide at VA Tennessee Valley Healthcare System

Recreation therapy and creative art services is a direct-care service that aims to maintain or improve functional independence and quality of life through active therapy and meaningful therapeutic activities. Therapy outcomes are based upon Veteran’s treatment needs and goals in order to optimize independence in life activities. Goals are achieved through state of the art clinical care, education, technology, and research-based interventions within the scope of recreation therapy and music therapy.

Special services available include:

• Recreation therapy
• Adaptive sports
• Creative expression
• Vibroacoustic therapy
• CERV- equine therapy
• Music Therapy
  • Guitar 4 Vets
  • Operation Song
  • Sounds of Acoustic Recovery (SOAR)
  • Therapeutic Drumming

Benefits of services include, but are not limited to:

• Increase physical well-being
• Increase strength and endurance using a variety of treatment modalities
• Positive coping strategies for management of unwanted behaviors
• Decrease anxiety
• Increase knowledge of community resources
• Decrease social isolation
• Improve social functioning
• Development of new leisure skills
• Increase independence in leisure functioning
• Enhance creative expression
• Promote constructive use of leisure time

Community Partners:

We work with a variety of community partners to provide therapy options for our Nation's heroes! If you are a community organization that provides sporting and other recreation activities and are interested in working with our recreation therapy, call 615-225-4606.

If you have a spinal cord injury or disorder, our specialists provide coordinated care throughout your life. We work to help you achieve your goals for independence, productivity and quality of life.

Care we provide at VA Tennessee Valley Healthcare System

VA has the nation’s largest system of care for spinal cord injuries and disorders. We provide a convenient, connected network of experts to care for you during each phase of your life. Our experienced primary care providers are trained to check for problems unique to spinal cord injuries.

• Pressure ulcers
• Pneumonia
• Blood clots
• Bladder and sexual issues
• Constipation and other gastrointestinal problems
• Sexual issues

Learn more about the VA spinal cord injuries and disorders care system