The Asheville VA Medical Center is a tertiary care, 116-bed acute care facility located in western North Carolina. Asheville operates a separate 120-bed Community Living Center, serving the western North Carolina area and portions of South Carolina, Tennessee, and Georgia. The Center's services include extended care rehabilitation, psychogeriatric care, and general nursing home care. Comprehensive health care is provided through the spectrum of primary care, tertiary care, and long-term care in areas of medicine, surgery, psychiatry, physical medicine and rehabilitation, neurology, oncology, dentistry, and geriatrics. Asheville is a teaching hospital, providing a full range of patient care services, with state-of-the-art technology and programs in education and research. Special programs include a Home Based Primary Care (HBPC) program, and a Substance Abuse Residential Rehabilitation Treatment Program (SARRTP). The medical center is located within the VA Mid-Atlantic Health Care Network (VISN 6).

 AFFILIATIONS

Duke University School of Medicine
Western Carolina University
Haywood Technical College
Bowman Gray
University of North Carolina
Duke University
Eastern Virginia Medical School
Medical College of Virginia
University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
University of Virginia
Wake Forest University 
Virginia College of Osteopathic Medicine

AUTHORIZED BEDS

116 acute medical/surgical
120 community living center
18 Substance Abuse Residential Rehabilitation Treatment Program

 TYPE OF FACILITY

Tertiary Care

 SPECIAL PROGRAMS

Home Based Primary Care Program
Substance Abuse Residential Rehabilitation Treatment Program