VA Connecticut Healthcare System
The VA Connecticut Healthcare System centers on a campus in West Haven, Connecticut, a few miles from downtown New Haven, and operates within the Veterans Health Administration. A longstanding affiliation with Yale School of Medicine makes the facility a major teaching site for residents, fellows, and health professions students, and supports one of the more productive research programs in the VA system, with recognized work in mental health, addiction, and PTSD. A second campus in Newington and community-based outpatient clinics extend access across the state.
Services include inpatient medical and surgical care, intensive care, surgery, primary care, and a wide 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 support an aging veteran population. Nurses practice across critical care, medical-surgical, perioperative, outpatient, and mental health settings, with acuity reflecting the hospital's academic character and its role as the state's principal VA referral destination. Nursing positions fall under federal employment, so pay scales, benefits, and advancement follow VA structures rather than the terms at Yale New Haven or Hartford HealthCare.
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