VA Medical Centers (VAMCs)
How to guides
Healthcare system and facilities
Learn about the content structure for your healthcare system, the facilities that compose your system, and how to maintain the basic system and facility content. This includes ideas on how to effectively spotlight content on your site for effective impressions on Veterans using our tested Veteran designs.
Alerts, operating status, and situation updates
Facility & locations list
Health services
Health services are one of the most important parts of your website. Veterans look to know how what services are available at your locations. Learn the structure of this content and how to keep this content accurate and up-to-date.
Important: This information will soon become the system of record for the services that your facilities offer Veterans. And this information will soon feed other application such as VA facility locator and future chatbots or mobile applications.
Health services list
VAMC system health services
VAMC facility health service
Required system pages
The VAMC websites are designed to be Veteran-focused, align to a national information architecture and naming convention, and re-use national content. Learn about the required pages that are part of your health care system and how to maintain them.
Required "top task" pages
Required health service caregiver pages
Leadership list & staff profiles
Other required pages
Stories, news releases, and events
Learn how to use stories, news releases, and events to showcase local content &emdash; including how to use this content for spotlighting content for effective impressions using our Veteran-tested design.
Story & stories list
News release & news releases list
Optional system pages
The standard information architecture also allows for optional pages available on your healthcare system. Some of these areas, such as Programs and Research allow for greater local flexibility. Learn how to enable these sections on your site and how to effectively use them.
Internships & fellowships page
Doing business with us
VA Medical Center training videos
Check out our training videos with activities. This video series will teach you what you need to know about how to maintain your VA Medical Center website.
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About the VA Medical Center website
VA Medical Center (VAMC) sites are designed to provide Veteran-centered information about VA health care systems. Learn about the new vision for VA health care sites and how you can support Veteran-centered content.