About the Program
A Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) Outpatient Support Clinic is a designated clinic that is located in a VA Medical Center without a SCI Center. Veterans residing in Salem's catchment area with spinal cord injuries are treated at the VA Medical Center in Richmond, Virginia, which is a designated SCI Center. Recognizing the difficulty of transportation and the need to provide an alternative to inpatient care provided at a SCI Center, the SCI Outpatient Support Clinic was established in 1993.
Services Offered
The SCI Outpatient Support Clinic provides basic ambulatory and screening services to eligible veterans who have sustained injury to the spinal cord, or who have other non-traumatic injuries, such as Multiple Sclerosis (MS), or Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS or Lou Gehrig's Disease).
Benefits include —
- Annual SCI physical
- Summarization letter of the yearly physical examination findings mailed to the veteran and to the lead SCI Center
- Supplies and medications can be ordered, renewed, or cancelled
- Evaluation and ordering of durable medical equipment
- Education on health problem prevention
- Information on benefits and the procedure for application
- Timely treatment interventions
- One-on-one interaction between the veteran and each discipline
- Sense of familarity due to the SCI Outpatient Support Clinic approaach
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