VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System

The VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System operates from a campus on Fuller Road in Ann Arbor, Michigan, near the University of Michigan's medical center, and functions within the Veterans Health Administration. The proximity underpins a longstanding affiliation with the U-M Medical School, making the facility a significant teaching site for residents, fellows, and health professions students, and supporting one of the larger research programs in the VA system. Community-based outpatient clinics extend access across southeastern Michigan and into northwest Ohio.

Services include inpatient medical and surgical care, intensive care, surgery, primary care, and a broad range of outpatient specialty clinics, alongside mental and behavioral health programs covering outpatient treatment, PTSD care, substance use treatment, and outreach to veterans experiencing homelessness. Extended care and rehabilitation services support an aging veteran population. Nurses practice across critical care, medical-surgical, perioperative, outpatient, and mental health settings, with acuity reflecting both the hospital's referral role and its academic character. The patient population skews older and male, carrying substantial chronic disease burden. Nursing positions fall under federal employment, so pay scales, benefits, and advancement follow VA structures rather than the terms at Michigan Medicine or Trinity Health.