When you enroll to any VA Healthcare Facility, a Primary Care Team will be assigned to coordinate all of the services to meet your health care needs. Whether that team is located in a VA medical center or in one of our Community Based Outpatient Clinics, your primary care visit will be set up and scheduled at your convenience.
During your visit:
- You will meet your assigned primary care provider
- You will have a physical examination.
- Your primary care provider will determine if you need any additional diagnostic testing, which may include blood/lab work, X-ray, MRI, etc.
- A complete medical history will be obtained. Bring a list of your current medications.
- Initial screenings may be done regarding your use of tobacco, alcohol, risk factors for Hepatitis C, and any history of military sexual trauma.
- Appropriate referrals for specialists will be made as necessary.
Preventive health maintenance is a strong emphasis within primary care at The Louis A Johnson VA Medical Center. Primary care providers provide annual physical examinations and screenings. This aids in finding any health changes and the early start of appropriate medical treatment. This may prevent or lessen major medical problems for you in the future. You can expect your primary care provider to discuss preventive health activities such as:
- Vaccines: flu, tetanus, pneumonia
- Depression screening
- Women's health issues: regular Pap smears and mammograms
- Education on prostate cancer screening for men over 50
- Colon cancer screening for anyone over 50
- Regular exercise and good nutrition to keep you healthy
Primary care providers and teams also evaluate any emergency medical needs between scheduled visits, arrange medication refills, answer questions about medications and order consultation by specialists.
Our goal in primary care is to improve the coordination of your health care needs. This will allow our health care professionals to provide the best care possible.
Summary of basic medical care services provided at the Louis A Johnson VA Medical Center:
- Cardiology/Pacemaker
- Dermatology
- Diabetes
- Emergency Department
- Gastroenterology
- Hematology/Oncology
- Immunizations-Influenza/Pneumonia
- Infectious Disease
- Internal Medicine
- Nephrology
- Pharmacology
- Podiatry
- Primary Care
- Pulmonology
- Rheumatology
- Optometry
- Pain Management (Chronic)
- Preventive Screening (Colorectal Cancer)
Emergency Care Services
Medical personnel are available in our Emergency Department 24 hours a day, seven days a week to treat patients with medically urgent needs. The Emergency Department is located on the first floor, D-Wing. Patients will be seen according to the severity of their illness.
Clinic Appointments
To schedule, reschedule or cancel an appointment for Primary Care or Women’s Wellness, call 304-623-3461
Please help us provide timely care to all veterans. If you cannot keep your appointment, notify your primary health care team or specialty clinic as soon as possible so we can schedule another veteran at that time and reschedule an appointment for you.
When reporting for a clinic appointment, we ask that you check in no earlier than 15 minutes before your scheduled appointment time. Every effort will be made to see patients at their scheduled time; in some cases this may not always be possible.
Enrollment and Eligibility
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