Military and Veteran Medicine

High-Quality Care for the Military Community

We are committed to providing convenient access to high-quality health services in a respectful and culturally appropriate environment that meets the specific needs of military service members, veterans, and their family members.

At Trinity Health, we recognize there are specific health concerns and challenges for veterans. Many of our doctors and staff have completed dedicated training to help understand and respond to these health concerns and challenges specific to the military community. This includes key illnesses and injuries and both the visible and invisible wounds of war, that are associated with service and deployments.

This training enhances the patient experience and improves health outcomes for our nation’s veterans, service members, and their families. The training increases awareness of service-related diagnoses and enables our doctors and staff to learn more about a patient's military history and general areas of concern, such as behavioral health issues, traumatic injuries sustained during military service, occupational exposures to infectious diseases, and/or observation of traumatic events.

The first step in getting the right care tailored to a veteran's military background is making sure the health care team knows the patient is a current, former, or retired military service member or a family member of a military service member/veteran.

Caring for Service Members, Veterans and Their Families

Meeting military service members and veterans’ health care needs is an important part of our overarching mission to safeguard our community’s health.

• Providers and staff are trained in military and veterans’ health. This training includes an understanding of military culture and the nuances of various military service branches; key illnesses and injuries associated with military service and military deployments, and effects of military service and deployments on family members.
  
  
• We welcome you. Your military background is part of who you are. We demonstrate our respect for your contributions with permanently displayed flags in the lobby of our hospitals. This includes the five military service branch flags or a single U.S. flag, a visible reminder of the commitment that our military service members, veterans, and their families have provided to our country.
  
  
• You must know me to treat me. Getting the right care starts with making sure your health care team knows that you're a service member, veteran, or family member. To streamline this process, we've added military-community-specific questions to our patient registration, intake forms, and electronic medical records.

Military Illnesses and Injuries Treated

In addition to providing you with preventive and responsive ongoing care, we offer a variety of specialized services for our military and veterans, including but not limited to:

• Agent orange exposure
• Behavioral and mental Health
• Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS)
• Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
• Dismounted Complex Blast Injuries (DCBI)
• Environmental exposure
• Gulf War illness
• Hearing loss and Tinnitus
• High blood pressure
• Infectious diseases
• Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)
• Migraine headaches
• Military Sexual Trauma (MST)
• Musculoskeletal injuries
• Nerve pain
• Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
• Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
• Traumatic injuries sustained during military service
• War Lung Injury
• Wounds of war

If you are having thoughts of suicide, call the Veteran's Crisis Line at 1-800-273-8255, then PRESS 1 or visit http://www.veteranscrisisline.net.