ABOUT DEPARTMENT OF VETERAN AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER
Located in Ann Arbor, Mich., the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center is a government facility that provides a wide range of general and specialized clinical programs across four sites in Ann Arbor, Jackson, Flint, and Toledo. It is affiliated with the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Michigan Medical School, offering inpatient, outpatient, and intensive outpatient programs to veterans struggling with mental health disorders.
TREATMENT & ASSESSMENT
According to the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center’s website, it provides outpatient treatment, hospital-based services, and community-based services. The treatment center’s staff has experience with mood disorders, stress and anxiety disorders, substance use, and other psychiatric disorders.
Inpatient services include an inpatient mental health unit, an electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) program, and consultation psychiatry.
The treatment center offers a wide range of outpatient treatment services, including treatment for PTSD, substance use, primary care mental health, neuro-psychology, geropsychiatry clinic, women’s mental health, returning veterans programs, military sexual trauma, and suicide prevention. It also offers intensive outpatient programming for substance use.
Community-based services include mental health intensive care management, a compensated work therapy program, healthcare for homeless veterans, a community mental health summit, and veterans justice outreach.
STAFF CREDENTIALS
There is currently no information provided by the facility regarding its treatment staff. However, a staffer polled by Best-rehabs.com gave four out of five stars for the staff’s experience.
ACCOMMODATIONS & AMENITIES
The Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center’s website notes that the treatment center’s inpatient mental health unit has 18 beds. The staffer surveyed by Best-rehabs.com gave four out of five stars for accommodations and amenities.
WHAT ALUMNI SAY
Best-rehabs.com has yet to receive any reviews from this facility’s former clients or loved ones. However, 186 Google Reviews for VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System at the time of this writing gave an average of 4.2 out of five stars, with mostly positive commentary. The reviews are for the entire hospital, not just for substance use and mental health programs.
Many reviewers praised the center as providing the best care ever and commended the friendly and professional staff. “Best clinic ever staff is very respectful and knowledgeable,” one reviewer wrote.
WHAT STAFF SAY
The staff member polled by Best-rehabs.com provided neutral to negative feedback and gave three out of five stars for treatment effectiveness, family participation, and holistic offerings. They gave two stars for counseling options. The staffer noted that the center had poor acute care but praised the “good simple patient care.”
FINANCING
There is currently no information provided by the facility regarding its cost of treatment. However, the staffer gave two out of five stars when asked if treatment was worth the cost.