Marion VA Medical Center

"My boyfriend went here, as recommended. My advice (as someone battling a rare long term cancer), do NOT waste your time, gas or energy going here. Their staff is unqualified. My boyfriend is having issues with his lower back and sides, and he has been drinking nothing but water the past two days. They did the BARE MINIMUM. A urine test and blood work. Which is not good enough care! They could not give any answers, refused to even give him IV fluids, refused to give a CT scan when asked. They did absolutely NOTHING!!! If something is seriously wrong (which could be the case, as my man does not complain about issues like this… ever. He sucks it up and goes on about his day). Never again will I allow the bare minimum towards someone I love. What a waste of time, money in gas and energy! He is still in pain! They just Told him to go home and drink water, couldn’t give a diagnosis, because they refused to find the issue and resolve it!! Of course they couldn’t, as bloodwork and a urine test won’t show if there is something severely wrong. Save yourself, and just go to a normal ER. At least they will provide you with ACTUAL care. This facility and all of their staff should be fired and shut down for how they treat people who have served for this country, and how UNINTELLIGENT and LAZY they are!!! Refusing to figure out and solve the issue is RIDICULOUS!!! What a joke this place and their staff is!!!"

"My cousin was recently a patient at the community care living center in Marion. The staff treated him as though he were family and kept me informed of everything on a daily basis."

"Very impress with the VA hospital. They actually listened. Emergency room nurse awesome. But I love his Dr. B on the floor Dr. He talk to me and listened. Checked everything out. He is doing great."

"BEST VA I have been to. LOVE THESE GUYS! Every other VA I have visited has been absolutely abysmal, just Kafkaesque, eg Ashville VA departments cannot even call each other for technical reasons WTAF? The Marion VA however is run so well it should be used as a model for every other VA hospital in the country."

"The VAMC in Marion, IL is amazing. I spent a couple of years at Naval Medical Venter San Diego during a medical retirement board. I thought NMC San Diego was efficient and awesome. Given the lack of funding to the VA in general and all the bad press at the time I wasn’t looking forward to transitioning to the VA medical system. Boy was I wrong! If they can’t see yo in a reasonable amount of time they are happy to send you out to a provider near your home vis a vis the veterans choice act. I have had numerous procedures at VAMC Marion and every time I was treated wonderfully. The entire staff is amazing and thoughtful and helpful. I can’t say enough good things about this VAMC. The campus is nice and compact. And the executive staff understands that they win when patients are healed and sent back out into the world as opposed to civilian medicine which seems to be incentivized to have you back often and heal you in their own sweet time. This VAMC is easy to find no matter what direction you approach from. If your a Vet near Marion, IL, then you should definitely should be getting your health Care here."