VA Western New York Health Care

The VA Western New York Healthcare System operates from a medical center on Bailey Avenue in Buffalo, New York, paired with a campus in Batavia to the east that carries substantial extended care and rehabilitation work. Community-based outpatient clinics extend access across western New York, including sites in Niagara Falls, Jamestown, Olean, and Dunkirk, covering both the Buffalo metropolitan area and rural counties along the Pennsylvania border. An affiliation with the University at Buffalo Jacobs School of Medicine makes the system a teaching site for residents, fellows, and health professions students.

Services include inpatient medical and surgical care, intensive care, surgery, primary care, and a 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 through a community living center and rehabilitation services support an aging veteran population, weighted by the region's older demographics. Nurses practice across critical care, medical-surgical, perioperative, outpatient, mental health, and long-term care settings, with roles differing between the two campuses. Nursing positions fall under federal employment, so pay and advancement follow VA structures rather than the terms at Kaleida Health or Catholic Health.