About the Program
Tennessee Valley Healthcare System GEC offers a spectrum of geriatric and extended health care services to veterans enrolled in its health care system. This spectrum includes both inpatient and outpatient services.
Inpatient Programs
TVHS has six GEC wards with 240 beds. Each ward focuses on a specific patient care need and medically evaluates veterans for admission based on the programs provided. Admission priority is provided to veterans identified in the VA mandated care category for the longer-stay programs. Admissions to the shorter-stay programs respite, rehabilitation, and hospice are based on clinical needs. Inpatients Services provided —
- Long-stay skilled nursing care
- Long-stay dementia care
- Long-stay psychiatric or chronically mentally ill
- Long-stay maintenance care
- Short-stay Rehabilitation
- Short-stay skilled care
- Hospice or palliative care
- Inpatient Respite services
Outpatient Programs
TVHS has several outpatient programs for the geriatric patients. These programs are available to veterans enrolled for care at TVHS who meet the medical criteria of the outpatient program. For most outpatient programs medical criteria is based on a veterans inability to live independently. Programs provided are —
- Contract Home Health Care
- Contract Adult Day Health Care
- Community Residential Care
- Contact Respite Care
- Home Hospice Care
- Care Coordination
- Geriatric Primary Care Clinic
Contract Nursing Home Program (CNH)
Veterans, who are eligible based on their service-connected disability, may be placed in community nursing homes at VA expense.
Geriatric Research, Education and Clinical Centers (GRECC)
These centers increase the basic knowledge of aging for health care providers and improve the quality of care through the development of improved models of clinical services. The TVHS GRECC provides educational and program development support to the GEC.
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