Alvin C. York VA Medical Center

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Name :

Alvin C. York VA Medical Center

Address  :

3400 Lebanon Pike

Town  :

Murfreesboro

State  :

Tennessee

Country  :

USA

Post Code:

37129

Phone  :

615 867 6000

Fax  :

615 225 4901

Web URL  :


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About the Alvin C York Campus
The Alvin C York Campus of the VA Tennessee Valley Healthcare System TVHS provides primary care and subspecialty medical surgical and psychiatric services to veterans The campus provides longterm rehabilitation and nursing home care and serves as a VISN 9 resource for the longterm inpatient care of psychiatric patients The medical center has a well established primary care program and provides subspecialty care in dermatology gastroenterology hematologyoncology infectious diseases neurology pulmonology nephrology rheumatology and sleep evaluation TVHS is affiliated with the graduate medical education programs of Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and Meharry Medical College

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