St. Cloud VA Medical Center

The St. Cloud VA Medical Center is located in central Minnesota on 218 acres of wooded grounds on the banks of Sauk River.  The City of St. Cloud is sixty-five miles northwest of the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul.  St. Cloud and its surrounding communities have a poplulation of more than 100,000 people.

The medical center began serving veterans in 1924 and now delivers care to more than 32,000 unique patients in the upper Midwest region. The medical center's mission is to honor America's Veterans by providing exceptional health care that improves their health and well-being.

Areas of care include primary medical and mental health care, a variety of specialty care services, urgent care, acute psychiatric care, telemedicine, extended care and rehabilitation and pharmacy services.

Specialty care services offered include audiology, dental, gastroenterology, hematology/oncology, optometry, orthopedics, podiatry, urology, rheumatology, and imaging.  A new same-day surgery center is under construction, which will provide access to additional outpatient surgical procedures beginning in the summer of 2010.

The medical center offers extensive mental health programming.  Programs include an acute psychiatry unit, a Residential Rehabilitation Treatment Program and an outpatient mental health clinic.  Individualized treatment plans use a recovery model to treat post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), substance abuse and a variety of mental health conditions.  Outpatient programming includes treatment for serious mental illness, vocational rehabilitation and supported employment.

The medical center's Community Living Center (extended care and rehabilitation) provides home-based primary care, nursing home care, adult day health care, ventilator-dependent care, memory care, hospice care and a variety of rehabilitation programs.

The St. Cloud VA Medical Center operates two Community Based Outpatient Clinics (CBOC's) in Brainerd and Montevideo, Minnesota.  A new CBOC will open in Alexandria, Minnesota in the summer of 2009.

Suicide Prevention Lifeline
The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline has been enhanced to provide a new service for veterans in crisis. Veterans will be connected immediately to VA suicide prevention and mental health service professionals by calling 1-800-273-TALK (8255) and pressing 1.

Visit Mental Health to listen to audio from the lifeline and get further information.