The Albany Stratton VA Medical Center provides for the health care needs of Veterans in 22 counties of upstate New York, western Massachusetts and Vermont. Find more details of our services at our Web site http://www.albany.va.gov/.
The Albany Stratton VA Medical Center (Albany VAMC) is located in the heart of Albany, the Capital of New York State. Part of the VA Healthcare Network Upstate New York, Albany VAMC was opened in 1951, serving Veterans in a 100-mile radius. Albany VAMC serves Veterans across the eastern, upstate region of New York State, utilizing eleven Community Based Outpatient Clinics (CBOCs) and a satellite office which services 22 New York counties and areas along the borders of western Massachusetts and Vermont. In 1990 this facility was named in honor of Samuel S. Stratton, U.S. Congressman of the 23rd District, a staunch supporter of Veterans and a frequent visitor to the hospital. The Stratton VA Medical Center is a Joint Commission accredited, complexity level 1c facility, receiving notification of increase from Surgical Complexity Designation Intermediate to Surgical Complexity Designation Complex on July 8, 2011.
To fulfill President Lincoln's promise, "To care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan."
The Albany VAMC is a Joint Commission accredited complexity level 1c facility. It is an integrated medical center with state-of-the-art technology that provides a full range of patient care services, education and research. Comprehensive health care, or what we call WholeHealth, is provided through primary, tertiary, and long-term care in areas of medicine, surgery, psychiatry, physical medicine and rehabilitation, neurology, oncology, dentistry, geriatrics, extended care and more.
