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Veterans, if you have flu-like symptoms call your provider before you visit your local medical center or clinic. Also consider using virtual options such as telehealth or My HealtheVet Secure Messaging. Click here for details.
Everyone entering our facilities is screened, and visitors are limited. Face coverings are mandatory.
Please contact us before going to any of our locations. For some needs, you may be able to get care at home by phone or video.
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The South Texas Veterans Health Care System (STVHCS) provides health care services to Veterans in South Texas.
STVHCS is comprised of the Audie L Murphy Memorial VA Hospital, the Kerrville VA Hospital, and the Satellite Clinic Division. The STVHCS is a 268 bed facility providing primary, secondary and tertiary health care in medicine, surgery, psychiatry, and rehabilitation medicine. It also supports a 90 bed Community Living Center, a 30-bed Spinal Cord Injury Center, an eight-bed Bone Marrow Transplant Unit, and a Geriatric Research, Education and Clinical Center.
Affiliated with the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, the system has an active ambulatory care program with satellite outpatient clinics in San Antonio and Victoria. Community Based Clnics are located in Alice, Beeville, Brownsville, Eagle Pass, Kingsville, New Braunfels, San Marcos, Seguin and Uvalde.
The special needs of the Vietnam era Veterans are met with Veteran Outreach Centers located in San Antonio.
The system dedicates 28,000 square feet to medical research. There are more than 150 research investigators conducting more than 500 research activities in areas such as aging, renal disease, diabetes, HIV/AIDs, and cancer treatment and therapy. The system has an NIH-funded General Clinical Research Center, the Veterans Evidence-Based Research Dissemination Implementation Center (VERDICT), and is a Cochrane Centre site. The Biomedical Research Foundation of South Texas was created in 1990 to support the research mission of the system. The Audie L. Murphy Memorial VA Hospital received the Vice-President's National Performance Review Office's Hammer Award for its unique development of sharing agreements and joint procurements with DoD, state, and private-sector facilities. The Kerrville VA Hospital is the recipient of the Scissors Award for their primary care system initiative.
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COVID-19 Notice
Veterans, if you have flu-like symptoms call your provider before you visit your local medical center or clinic. Also consider using virtual options such as telehealth or My HealtheVet Secure Messaging. Click here for details.
Everyone entering our facilities is screened, and visitors are limited. Face coverings are mandatory.
Please contact us before going to any of our locations. For some needs, you may be able to get care at home by phone or video.
COVID-19 vaccines: Click here for the latest updates and sign up to stay informed about COVID-19 vaccines.
Audie L Murphy Memorial VA Hospital (ALMMVH) is part of the South Texas Veterans Health Care System and is comprised of a Spinal Cord Injury Center, a Community Living Center, a Domiciliary, and a Substance Abuse Residential Rehabilitation Treatment Program.
ALMMVH provides comprehensive health care that includes acute medical, surgical, mental health, physical medicine and rehabilitation, geriatric, and primary care services.
Specialty services include bone marrow transplantation, open-heart surgery, magnetic resonance imaging, and positron emission tomography.
As a Level II Research facility, ALMMVH has projects that include aging, cardiac surgery, cancer, diabetes, and HIV.
The facility has one of three National Institutes of Health-sponsored clinical research centers in the VA.
Veterans
If you are the spouse, surviving spouse, dependent child, or family caregiver of a Veteran or service member, you also may be eligible.
COVID-19 Notice
Veterans, if you have flu-like symptoms call your provider before you visit your local medical center or clinic. Also consider using virtual options such as telehealth or My HealtheVet Secure Messaging. Click here for details.
Everyone entering our facilities is screened, and visitors are limited. Face coverings are mandatory.
Please contact us before going to any of our locations. For some needs, you may be able to get care at home by phone or video.
COVID-19 vaccines: Click here for the latest updates and sign up to stay informed about COVID-19 vaccines.
- Mental Health Care
- Primary Care
- Dermatology
- Specialty Care
New patient wait times: average number of days a Veteran who hasn’t been to this location has to wait for a non-urgent appointment.
- Primary Care: 23 days
- Specialty care:
- Dermatology: 5 days
- Mental Health: 7 days
- Specialty Care: 14 days
65% of Veterans say they usually or always get an appointment at this location when they need care right away.
82% of Veterans say they usually or always get a routine care appointment at this location when they need it.
Veterans and their families
COVID-19 Notice
Veterans, if you have flu-like symptoms call your provider before you visit your local medical center or clinic. Also consider using virtual options such as telehealth or My HealtheVet Secure Messaging. Click here for details.
Everyone entering our facilities is screened, and visitors are limited. Face coverings are mandatory.
Please contact us before going to any of our locations. For some needs, you may be able to get care at home by phone or video.
COVID-19 vaccines: Click here for the latest updates and sign up to stay informed about COVID-19 vaccines.
by South Texas Veterans Health Care System (STVHCS)
COVID-19 Notice
Veterans, if you have flu-like symptoms call your provider before you visit your local medical center or clinic. Also consider using virtual options such as telehealth or My HealtheVet Secure Messaging. Click here for details.
Everyone entering our facilities is screened, and visitors are limited. Face coverings are mandatory.
Please contact us before going to any of our locations. For some needs, you may be able to get care at home by phone or video.
COVID-19 vaccines: Click here for the latest updates and sign up to stay informed about COVID-19 vaccines.
by South Texas Veterans Health Care System (STVHCS)
COVID-19 Notice
Veterans, if you have flu-like symptoms call your provider before you visit your local medical center or clinic. Also consider using virtual options such as telehealth or My HealtheVet Secure Messaging. Click here for details.
Everyone entering our facilities is screened, and visitors are limited. Face coverings are mandatory.
Please contact us before going to any of our locations. For some needs, you may be able to get care at home by phone or video.
COVID-19 vaccines: Click here for the latest updates and sign up to stay informed about COVID-19 vaccines.
COVID-19 Notice
Veterans, if you have flu-like symptoms call your provider before you visit your local medical center or clinic. Also consider using virtual options such as telehealth or My HealtheVet Secure Messaging. Click here for details.
Everyone entering our facilities is screened, and visitors are limited. Face coverings are mandatory.
Please contact us before going to any of our locations. For some needs, you may be able to get care at home by phone or video.
COVID-19 vaccines: Click here for the latest updates and sign up to stay informed about COVID-19 vaccines.
COVID-19 Notice
Veterans, if you have flu-like symptoms call your provider before you visit your local medical center or clinic. Also consider using virtual options such as telehealth or My HealtheVet Secure Messaging. Click here for details.
Everyone entering our facilities is screened, and visitors are limited. Face coverings are mandatory.
Please contact us before going to any of our locations. For some needs, you may be able to get care at home by phone or video.
COVID-19 vaccines: Click here for the latest updates and sign up to stay informed about COVID-19 vaccines.
COVID-19 Notice
Veterans, if you have flu-like symptoms call your provider before you visit your local medical center or clinic. Also consider using virtual options such as telehealth or My HealtheVet Secure Messaging. Click here for details.
Everyone entering our facilities is screened, and visitors are limited. Face coverings are mandatory.
Please contact us before going to any of our locations. For some needs, you may be able to get care at home by phone or video.
COVID-19 vaccines: Click here for the latest updates and sign up to stay informed about COVID-19 vaccines.
COVID-19 Notice
Veterans, if you have flu-like symptoms call your provider before you visit your local medical center or clinic. Also consider using virtual options such as telehealth or My HealtheVet Secure Messaging. Click here for details.
Everyone entering our facilities is screened, and visitors are limited. Face coverings are mandatory.
Please contact us before going to any of our locations. For some needs, you may be able to get care at home by phone or video.
COVID-19 vaccines: Click here for the latest updates and sign up to stay informed about COVID-19 vaccines.
COVID-19 Notice
Veterans, if you have flu-like symptoms call your provider before you visit your local medical center or clinic. Also consider using virtual options such as telehealth or My HealtheVet Secure Messaging. Click here for details.
Everyone entering our facilities is screened, and visitors are limited. Face coverings are mandatory.
Please contact us before going to any of our locations. For some needs, you may be able to get care at home by phone or video.
COVID-19 vaccines: Click here for the latest updates and sign up to stay informed about COVID-19 vaccines.
COVID-19 Notice
Veterans, if you have flu-like symptoms call your provider before you visit your local medical center or clinic. Also consider using virtual options such as telehealth or My HealtheVet Secure Messaging. Click here for details.
Everyone entering our facilities is screened, and visitors are limited. Face coverings are mandatory.
Please contact us before going to any of our locations. For some needs, you may be able to get care at home by phone or video.
COVID-19 vaccines: Click here for the latest updates and sign up to stay informed about COVID-19 vaccines.
COVID-19 Notice
Veterans, if you have flu-like symptoms call your provider before you visit your local medical center or clinic. Also consider using virtual options such as telehealth or My HealtheVet Secure Messaging. Click here for details.
Everyone entering our facilities is screened, and visitors are limited. Face coverings are mandatory.
Please contact us before going to any of our locations. For some needs, you may be able to get care at home by phone or video.
COVID-19 vaccines: Click here for the latest updates and sign up to stay informed about COVID-19 vaccines.
COVID-19 Notice
Veterans, if you have flu-like symptoms call your provider before you visit your local medical center or clinic. Also consider using virtual options such as telehealth or My HealtheVet Secure Messaging. Click here for details.
Everyone entering our facilities is screened, and visitors are limited. Face coverings are mandatory.
Please contact us before going to any of our locations. For some needs, you may be able to get care at home by phone or video.
COVID-19 vaccines: Click here for the latest updates and sign up to stay informed about COVID-19 vaccines.
South Texas Veterans Health Care System - Villa Serena offers help for veterans with a chronic mental illness or substance abuse addiction by providing inpatient and outpatient treatment.
Services Provided
- Substance abuse treatment services
- Buprenorphine and suboxone treatment services
Types of Addiction Treatment Care Provided
- Outpatient counseling treatment
- Residential short-term inpatient treatment (30 days or less)
- Residential long-term inpatient treatment (60, 90, 120 days)
Addiction Treatment Programs Available
- Addiction treatment for women
- Addiction treatment for men
- ASL or other assistance for hearing impaired
- Addiction treatment for Christians
Veterans only
Payment and Payment Assistance
- Private health insurance (May include: Cigna, Aetna, Blue Cross Blue Shield, United Healthcare, Humana Health, Amerihealth, Beech Street, Claremont Behavioral, Compcare, Compsynch, Federal Blue Cross, Healthsmart, Health One, Integrated Behavioral)
- Military Insurance (e.g. VA, TRICARE)
- Loans and financing (Check with facility for details.)