Primary Care Mental Health Integration is often the first point of contact for same-day or brief mental health support in primary care.

Services include assessment, short-term psychotherapy, medication consultation, nursing care management, and peer support.

Primary Care Mental Health Integration can be accessed by asking your primary care provider for a warm hand-off via phone, or available as a walk-in service during regular business hours.

General outpatient mental health offers Team based care, medication management, individual and group psychotherapy, peer support, and recovery-oriented care.

Veterans can receive care face to face, via video call, or telephone appointments based on Veterans needs and appropriateness.

Veterans can schedule appointments by calling:

(888) 214-1247 ext. 33680 for Battle Creek VA Medical Center

(616) 249-5300 ext. 30334 for Wyoming VA Clinic

(269) 934-9123 ext. 39601 for Benton Harbor VA Clinic

(517) 267-3925 ext. 37804 for Lansing VA Clinic

(231) 798-4445 ext. 39702 for Muskegon VA Clinic

Residential programs include PTSD-Residential Rehabilitation Treatment Program (RRTP), Substance Use Residential Rehabilitation Treatment Program, and Psychosocial Residential Recovery Treatment Program. 

The philosophy of the Battle Creek VA Medical Center Mental Health RRTPs is rooted in Recovery principles, and Veterans identify and pursue their personal Recovery goals to facilitate successful community living.

Each RRTP has core programming in the morning based on their specific area of focus (for example, PTSD). Afternoon programming for Veterans from different RRTPs at the same facility is combined.

The afternoon curricula – VA University – empowers each Veteran to create a program tailored to their personal recovery goals by choosing from a variety of interdisciplinary classes and groups. Veterans have a catalogue of course offerings and afternoon programming is shared across the three programs, allowing for greater choice and utilization of resources. Veterans review these options with their primary psychotherapists and select ones that they believe can best help them achieve their personal recovery goals.

VA University classes involve participation not only from Mental Health RRTP staff members, but also VA staff from other Services including dietitians, chaplains, recreational therapists, vocational rehabilitation specialists, neuropsychologists, as well as volunteers from the community.