Military and Veterans Health Program
Serving You As You Served Us
The honorable men and women of the United States Armed Forces and their families have answered our country’s call to serve with dedication, courage and sacrifice. Now, let us be here for you.
You deserve a health care provider who is informed and engaged in learning about you, the whole person, and working with you as a partner. As a member of the military community, your unique experiences, exposures, and work environments are an important part of understanding your overall health and planning your care.
St. Mary’s Health Care System is proud to introduce the Military and Veterans Health Program (MilVet). The goal of this program is to provide military service members, veterans and their families with convenient access to high-quality, culturally sensitive, people-centered health care services that meet their specific needs.
Through our Military and Veterans Health Program, we are committed to providing respectful and culturally competent health care services in the following ways:
- Providers and colleagues are trained in military and veteran’s health. Our providers undergo training to help understand and respond to the health concerns and challenges specific to the military community. This training includes:
- Understanding of military culture, including the nuances of various military service branches.
- Key illnesses and injuries associated with military service and military deployments.
- Effect of military service and deployments on family members.
- We identify patients who are military service members, veterans or family members. The first step in getting the right care is making sure your health care team knows that you are a service member, veteran or family member. To streamline this process, we’ve added military-community specific questions to our registration and intake forms and electronic medical records.
- We welcome you. All military service members and veterans who wish to be recognized at the registration process will receive an American flag wristband while staying at any of our hospitals.
On behalf of all of us at St. Mary’s, thank you for your service to our country. We’re here to serve you.
Key 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 Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
- Dismounted Complex Blast Injuries (DCBI)
- Environmental Exposures (burn pits, etc.)
- 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)
- Sleep Disorders
- Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
- Traumatic injuries sustained during military service
- War Lung Injury
- Wounds of war
Community Outreach
Community outreach is a key factor of the St. Mary’s Military and Veteran Health Program that links to local, state and national veteran’s service organizations such as the Veteran’s Administration or local non-profit agencies in our area that may serve veterans. By joining forces with other entities, we can ensure we are not duplicating important scarce resources and also be an asset to military service organizations already in existence.
TRICARE Benefits
St. Mary’s accepts TRICARE. Please call us at (706) 389-3950 or visit our Insurance page