Directions: From I-94, take US-23 north. From M-14, take US-23 south. From US-23, take exit 39 (Geddes Rd.) and go west (Geddes becomes Fuller). From the west, take I-94 exit 172 and follow Jackson Rd.; it becomes Huron St.; turn left on Glen Ave. (Glen becomes Fuller Rd.). The entrance to the patient and visitor parking structure is at the intersection of Fuller and Glazier Way.

Description: VAAAHS provides outpatient and inpatient care to more than 158,000 veterans living in southeastern Michigan and northwestern Ohio. The main campus houses 98 acute care inpatient beds, a 45-bed extended care center, and a clinical building for outpatient, diagnostic, and surgical services. As the major VA referral facility for the Lower Peninsula, the health system supports numerous specialty programs, including a cardiac center, neurosurgery, hemodialysis, intensive psychiatric care, cochlear implantation, and cancer treatment, as well as the latest diagnostic technology in radiology. The facility offers special treatment programs for women, Gulf War and Iraq War veterans, veterans with spinal cord injuries, former prisoners of war, and other veterans with special needs. VAAAHS includes outpatient clinics in Flint, Jackson, and Toledo.

The Ann Arbor facility also houses clinical, basic sciences, and health services research programs, and one of the VA’s 21 geriatric research, education, and clinical centers. More than 120 VA researchers are working at this center on more than 400 projects in such areas as cardiovascular disease, cancer, hypertension, and diabetes. A major teaching facility, VAAAHS is affiliated with the U-M Medical School and 40 other colleges and universities and provides training to more than 1,100 people yearly. It employs more than 1,370 staff and has more than 1,000 volunteers.