About the Program

The Primary Care Service Line offers an extensive range of treatment modalities with emphasis on healthcare prevention. Our Primary Care physicians are internationally recognized for breakthrough research in a number of primary care areas. Because veterans seek primary care from a wide geographic area, we have created primary care at Community-based Outpatient Clinics (CBOC) in Flint and Jackson, Michigan and Toledo, Ohio. (see CBOC web pages) .

Services Offered

Contact your primary care physician if you need any of these or other services -

• cancer screening
• high cholesterol evaluation and treatment
• cardiovascular disease evaluation and treatment
• chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) treatment
• diabetes prevention and treatment
• thyroid disease treatment
• flu, pneumonia, and hepatitis vaccines
• high blood pressure prevention and treatment
• treatment for obesity
• osteoporosis treatment
• prostate disease prevention and treatment
• smoking cessation
• gastrointestinal disease evaluation and treatment

As a tertiary care facility with a close affiliation with the University of Michigan (U/M), we provide referrals to numerous on-site specialty clinics staffed by U/M faculty physicians including:

• Anticoagulation clinic (blood thinning)
• Cardiology
• Pulmonary (lung diseases)
• Rheumatology (arthritis)
• Oncology/Hematology (cancer and blood diseases)
• Renal/Nephrology Kidney diseases
• Dermatology (skin diseases)
• Gastroenterology
• Geriatrics
• Infectious Disease
• Neurology
• Pain
• General Surgery
• Ear, Nose, and Throat (ENT)
• Neurosurgery
• Vascular Surgery
• Ophthalmology (eye diseases)
• Orthopedics
• Plastic Surgery
• Urology