Tuscaloosa VAMC

About the Facility:

The Tuscaloosa VA Medical Center is located in West Alabama on a beautifully landscaped 126 acre campus. Tuscaloosa offers a low cost of living and year round outdoor recreational activities along with cultural activities. Tuscaloosa is the largest metropolitan area in western Alabama and is the home of the University of Alabama. Tuscaloosa is located 45 miles by interstate highway from Birmingham (the largest city in Alabama) and 225 miles from the Gulf of Mexico. The community has a major medical center; public and private schools with outstanding academic and athletic programs; affordable housing; extremely low property taxes; and a wide range of professional, social and leisure activities. 

Tuscaloosa VA Medical Center (TVAMC) provides primary care, long-term health care and mental health care services to eligible veterans in VISN 7. TVAMC provides access to secondary and tertiary care services. The Medical Center provides comprehensive outpatient services in Primary Care clinics. The primary care program offers clinics in women’s health; Preservation Amputation Care and Treatment (PACT); podiatry; neurology; Visual Impairment Service Team (VIST); spinal cord injury and Geriatric Primary Care. The Medical Center has implemented a Care Coordination program which includes: Case Management for the Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) and Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) Combat Veterans, Care Coordination/Home Telehealth and other programs cited below. 

The Medical Center operates a 381 bed teaching hospital with 198 authorized nursing home care beds. The full range of inpatient and outpatient care is provided including Psychiatry (87 beds), a Homeless Domiciliary – DRRTP (48 beds) and a Psychosocial Residential Rehabilitation Treatment Program – PRRTP (48 beds). 
TVAMC is located in West Alabama. The facility is situated on a beautiful campus of 125 acres with 25 major buildings. TVAMC leases space to Indian Rivers, a non-profit community mental health provider serving Tuscaloosa, Bibb and Pickens counties in West Alabama. 

Through an Enhanced Lease Agreement, Hospice of West Alabama is operating in the new 28,000 square-foot facility on 3.17 acres of TVAMC grounds. This is the first inpatient hospice facility in West Alabama. It is a beautiful facility with 10 private patient rooms, porches and outdoor living spaces, living areas, a family-style kitchen, a chapel and administrative offices. This project is a good community partnership that benefits our veterans by providing preference in five of the hospice beds. The facility has an agreement with Hospice of West Alabama to lease them one of our quarter’s (Building No. 8) for use as a family lodging facility. 
There are no current or planned CBOCs.