VA TVHS operates a medical center in Nashville, a medical center in Murfreesboro, and 19 clinics.
09/15/2025
VA Tennessee Valley Healthcare System (TVHS) encourages all Veterans who are experiencing a crisis to contact the Veterans Crisis Line. It is a toll-free, confidential resource for Veterans, service members, VA employees, family members and concerned citizens. To contact the Veterans Crisis Line, dial 988 and press 1, text 838255, or chat online at VeteransCrisisLine.net/Chat.
Facts over fiction:
You do not have to be suicidal to call the Veterans Crisis Line. It is a service to help with a crisis no matter how big or small.
Calling the Veterans Crisis Line will not immediately trigger a welfare check. If a Veteran or family member calls the Veterans Crisis Line, a caring responder will work with the caller to provide the best care.
A Veteran does not need to be enrolled to use the Veterans Crisis Line. The Veterans Crisis Line is available at all times to help Veterans and their family.
The passion to honor loved ones is one of many reasons that Veterans turn to creative outlets, while another reason is the mindfulness and a sense of grounding. At TVHS, music and art therapists lead creative art classes to help Veterans discover ways to overcome their mental and physical challenges.
“I was in a [TVHS] art and music therapy class, and we would paint, and they would play music, and that's where I got a lot of my practice,” said Korry Rahn, an Air Force Veteran. “I found out being present in the moment is like another part of meditation, so it helps to rewire your brain.”
Rahn entered two different submissions into the creative arts competition, including a hand-crocheted Afghan blanket and a vibrant painting of a friendly cow admiring a hummingbird.
Every year, su***de claims the lives of too many. Help is available, and no one has to go through this struggle alone. This article is dedicated to highlighting the vital resources and support systems that are out there for those in crisis.
Click the link below to read more on the Veterans Crisis Line, COMPACT Act, Residential Rehabilitation Treatment Program, TVHS Chaplain Service, su***de stigma, lethal means safety and real testimonies.
Live in the Lewisburg area? Need more information on VA resources? 🤔
Visit us THIS THURSDAY, Sept. 11, 2025, from 4 – 7 p.m. CT, at the Lewisburg Recreation Center located at 1551 Mooresville Highway for a Veterans resource fair!
With an idea, a thread becomes a quilt, a line becomes a portrait, a drop of paint becomes a landscape, and a word becomes a poem.
For U.S. Army Veteran Carlos Carpena-Marrero, he did not have to look any further than the life of an extraordinary woman: his mother-in-law. Her strength, courage, and dreams created the vivid lines that he charcoaled across the canvas for “The Inner Beauty.”
“This [first charcoal rose sketch] is before she was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, and then this one is after she was diagnosed with Alzheimer's,” said Carpena-Marrero as he discussed his artwork. “You can see in this one that the paper is nice and neat, and ready for her to write her own story. However, the other one shows the different wrinkles; this is after the diagnosis. But every wrinkle has a story.”
Adaptive Sports and Arts - U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
09/04/2025
Congratulations Dr. Charles Emerson for being recognized by VA Secretary Doug Collins with an award and coin for turning 90 years old. Emerson, a U.S. Air Force Veteran, has been helping Veterans for decades.
He worked as an orthopedic surgeon at VA Tennessee Valley Healthcare System for 10 years before he retired, and then returned as a volunteer. He has volunteered for more than 865 hours during his time here.
Thank you for your service!
09/02/2025
Help us celebrate WWII Veteran Frank Michanowicz 100th birthday!
Born Sept. 1, 1925, Frank joined the Navy at the young age of 16 – just one month shy of his 17th birthday. Frank’s friends and family traveled across the globe from Denmark, Italy, South Korea and across the United States to celebrate his big day.
The TVHS Post-Baccalaureate Registered Nurse Residency program provides the new graduate RN with the opportunity to focus on enhancement of competence and confidence in practice, skill development, implementation of evidence-based practice and professional development. With two cohorts graduating our 12-month nurse residency program each year,
TVHS ensures our newly hired nurses are prepared to contribute to positive outcomes for our Veterans through the development of competent and confident VA Nurses.
Congratulations to John H. Croteau, Jr., Jamie L. Jernigan, Anthony E. Oldham, and Victoria B. Rhodes, for graduating from the VA Tennessee Valley Healthcare System’s Registered Nurse Transition to Practice Program! These nurses successfully completed a 12-month curriculum with comprehensive standards related to clinical, leadership, and professional dimensions.
08/25/2025
Dr. Bridget Brozyna and Will Cosby from VA Tennessee Valley Healthcare System attended the ribbon cutting ceremony in Chattanooga on Friday Aug. 22, 2025, marking the official opening of the new location of the Tennessee Department of Veteran Services Office only a mile from the Chattanooga VA Clinic.
This event highlights our ongoing commitment to providing top care and services for our Veterans and their families. The ceremony was attended by local officials’ community leaders and Veterans all coming together to celebrate the expansion of services aimed at improving the quality of care for our nation's heroes.
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Tennessee Valley Healthcare System (TVHS) is an integrated healthcare system comprised of Medical Centers, the Alvin C. York Campus in Murfreesboro, TN, and the Nashville Campus in Nashville, TN, and many community based outpatient clinics located in Tennessee (Athens, Charlotte Avenue, Chattanooga, Clarksville, Tullahoma, McMinnville, Maury County, Cookeville, Roane County, and Dover), and Kentucky (Hopkinsville, and Bowling Green) Tennessee Valley also operates a Dental Clinic in Clarksville, Tenn.
TVHS provides ambulatory care, primary care, and secondary care in acute medicine and surgery, specialized tertiary care, transplant services, spinal cord injury, outpatient care, and a full range of extended care and mental health services. The Nashville Campus is the only VA facility that supports all solid organ transplant programs, including total in-house kidney and bone marrow transplants. The Alvin C. York Campus is a network referral center for mental health services, geriatrics, and extended care. TVHS provides a full range of specialized medical services.
TVHS has active affiliations with two local institutions. The Alvin C. York Campus is primarily affiliated with Meharry Medical College, with active residency programs in oral surgery, psychiatry, general internal medicine, occupational medicine, preventive medicine, geriatric medicine, and family practice. The Nashville Campus is primarily affiliated with the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine with active residency programs in all major medical and surgical specialties and sub-specialties.
Mission
Enhance the health and well-being of Veterans who entrust us with their care.
Vision
Right Services, at the Right time, for the Right Reason!
Values
Integrity: Act with high moral principle. Adhere to the highest professional standards. Maintain the trust and confidence of all with whom I engage.
Commitment: Work diligently to serve Veterans and other beneficiaries. Be driven by an earnest belief in VA’s mission. Fulfill my individual responsibilities and organizational responsibilities.
Advocacy: Be truly Veteran-centric by identifying, fully considering, and appropriately advancing the interests of Veterans and other beneficiaries.
Respect: Treat all those I serve and with whom I work with dignity and respect. Show respect to earn it.
Excellence: Strive for the highest quality and continuous improvement. Be thoughtful and decisive in leadership, accountable for my actions, willing to admit mistakes, and rigorous in correcting them.
