VA Healthcare

VA Healthcare

VA provides facility locations, services, wait times, and satisfaction scores for VA medical centers, clinics, and benefits offices. Facility types: health, benefits, cemetery, vet_center. Data includes address, phone, hours, services offered, satisfaction scores, and wait times for primary care, mental health, and specialty care. Filter by state, ZIP, coordinates, or bounding box.

Data Model

• Facilities — VA locations identified by unique facility ID (e.g. vha_688). Types: health (medical centers, clinics), benefits (regional offices), cemetery (national cemeteries), vet_center. Can be searched by state or ZIP code, by latitude and longitude with a radius in miles, or by a geographic bounding box.
• Services — healthcare services available at each facility: primary care, mental health, dental, audiology, cardiology, etc.
• Wait times — average days to appointment for new and established patients by service type.
• Satisfaction — patient satisfaction scores (0-1 scale) for primary care, specialty care, and urgent care.
• Addresses — physical and mailing addresses with lat/lon coordinates for each facility.
• Hours — operating hours by day of week for each facility.

Gotchas

• Facility types — filter with type parameter: health, benefits, cemetery, vet_center.
• Pagination — page and per_page parameters; default per_page is 10, max is 200.
• State filter — use uppercase two-letter state abbreviation (CA, TX, NY).
• Distance queries — use lat/long with radius_mi parameter, or bbox for bounding box.
• Wait time units — reported in business days, not calendar days.