VA North Texas Health Care System (VANTHCS) is a progressive health care provider in the heart of Texas. Poised as VA’s second largest health care system, we serve more than 117,000 Veterans and deliver 1.4 million outpatient episodes of care each year to Veterans in 38 Texas counties and two counties in southern Oklahoma. We have about 5,000 employees and 1,700 community volunteers who are driven by the passion to serve our Veterans.
VANTHCS provides comprehensive health services through primary, tertiary and long-term care in many areas like medicine, surgery, mental health and rehabilitation. Our 822-bed system has a Spinal Cord Injury Center, Domiciliary Care Program and Community Living Center with a dedicated hospice unit. In 2009, a Fisher House was established on the Dallas VA campus to provide no-cost temporary lodging in a home-like setting for families of Veterans or active duty military personnel undergoing treatment at the facility.

Recognizing the importance of educating tomorrow’s clinicians, we have an important teaching mission providing education and experience to about 2,600 residents, students and trainees. As a major research center, VANTHCS has more than 90 principal investigators and 400 research staff who work to create advances in our understanding and treatments of diseases and disabilities that affect Veterans and the general population.