Dayton VA Medical Center, Ohio

Situation Update

As of Friday, March 27, 2020 3:58 PM EDT

The Dayton VA Medical Center continues to take proactive steps to prevent the spread of coronavirus disease, known as COVID-19.

For your safety and for the safety of our staff and patients, if you are sick, please call your Primary Care Provider or the Medical Center at (937) 268-6511 prior to coming to any Dayton VA facility. Many appointments are being converted to virtual appointments. Please check with your provider for more information.

Effective Monday March 23, 2020, the Community Based Outpatient Clinics (CBOCs) under the operation of the Dayton VA will temporarily move to virtual care only. This includes the Dayton VA Medical Center clinics in Lima, Middletown, Springfield, and Richmond, Indiana. For Veterans in these affected areas who have questions about routine medical care, pharmacy refills, or to speak to a medical provider, please call your local CBOC.

Veterans may change their appointments to a telehealth appointment. Please call your provider to ask if this is an option.   If telehealth is not available, providers may be able to do a telephone appointment.  Not all appointments will be ideal for telehealth or phone call, discuss with your provider if it’s the best option for you.    

Telehealth Instructions 

Download the Telehealth App and see the instructions on how to get started:  

iOS Download 

Instructions for iOS    Google Play 

Instructions for Google Play   

Launch in Browser 

Please read the Dayton VA Medical Center's updated visitor policy. We thank our Veterans and community for their understanding during this time:

The Dayton VA Medical Center is not allowing visitors/general public into our facilities except for those directly assisting or caring for a Veteran to include any end of life care.

Directly assisting or caring for a Veteran is defined as :

• A single individual responsible for transporting a patient coming for a procedure or being discharged from the hospital.

• A single designated partner or primary caretaker.

• End-of-life situations.

Please note:

• Each visitor will be screened upon entry to the hospital for symptoms related to COVID-19.

• Patients are limited to one visitor at a time.

• No visitors under age 18.

• Visitors are not permitted to see patients if they exhibit any respiratory illness symptoms (coughing, sneezing, runny nose, fever, etc..)

• Visitors are not permitted if they have traveled internationally or places with high incidents of COVID-19 within the past 14 days.

• All visitors will follow respiratory hygiene and cough etiquette precautions while in the common areas of the facility.

All events are cancelled until further notice. This includes tables, booths, exhibits, ribbon cuttings, food pantries, health fairs, job fairs, etc. Treatment Groups/Support Groups are still running as scheduled this time. Please call your local point of contact prior to traveling for questions regarding cancellations.