About VA Heartland Network

VISN 15 Network Business Office 1201 Walnut Street Suite #800 Kansas City, Missouri  64106 (816) 701-3000

The VA Heartland Network is one of twenty-two Veterans Integrated Service Networks (VISN)  located throughout the United States. The VA Heartland Network also known as VISN 15,  provides health care services to veterans in Kansas and Missouri, as well as parts of Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky and Arkansas.

VA Heartland Network is one of the only VA networks in the country to be endorsed by the National Committee for Quality Assurance.

The 2006 edition of the VA Heartland Network (VISN 15) Strategic Plan presents a concise blueprint for future direction. It is designed for you, our stakeholders – the many employees, volunteer staff, veterans’ organizations, affiliates, government leaders, and other partners who are actively involved in the health care of the one million veterans in the Network. The VA Heartland Network includes seven VA medical centers on nine campuses and 42 community based outpatient clinics (CBOCs) in six states (Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Arkansas, Kentucky and Indiana).

The  medical centers are:

*The Topeka and Leavenworth VA Medical Centers together form the VA Eastern Kansas Health Care Network

By bringing our medical centers together, VA Heartland Network is able to deliver efficient and effective medical treatment across the complete continuum of care - primary, secondary and tertiary. Our specialties include some of the most demanding medical programs:

• Neurosurgery
• Cardiac surgery and care
• Spinal cord injuries
• Psychiatric care
• Substance abuse rehabilitiation
• Vision impairment
• Rehabilitation medicine
• Dialysis
• Cancer/Oncology

Our 29 outpatient clinics bring medical care directly into local communities throughout the VA Heartland Network