Lebanon VAMC Behavioral Health and Sciences

Clean Facilities 5☆ 17-2b ortho tv not working. Friendly staff 5☆ at different buildings / Lack of crosswalks. 3☆ The television in building 17-5 waiting area in not plugged in.. see picture..

The VA is giving all of your private healthcare data to Palantir for their AI programs. They are selling your health data for profit and claiming it's to help you. It isn't.

IN A WORLD WHERE ITS MUCH EASIER TO DEGRADE AND COMPLAIN I WOULD LIKE TO COMPLIMENT A FEW OF THE LEBANON VA HOSPITAL DRS & NURSES. DR. STEPHANIE BANJA ( PODIATRY) DR. DANIEL KOTEK ( PULMONARY) DR. PAN ( GASTERITIS OR) RADIOLOGY DEPT, LIVER DEPT, EDEMA DEPT. IVE HAD SOME HEALTH ISSUES AND NEEDED THE LEBANON VA'S CARE AND THEY STEPPED UP TO THAT PLATE AND WERE THERE FOR ME. I HAVE COME TO KNOW ALOT OF THESE DR'S & NURSES AND I HAVE COME TO LOVE AND RESPECT THEM VERY MUCH. BEFORE YOU DECIDE TO CONDEM THESE FOLK'S THINK ABOUT THE CONSTANT DEMAND'S THEY ARE ALSO UNDER 24/7. TO MY LEBANON VA TEAM THANK YOU ALL FOR SHOWING ME CARE AND COMPASSION DURING TIME'S THAT IVE FELT SOO VERY LOST AND SCARED. GOD BLESS YOU ALL FOR YOUR CARE AND SACRED COMPASSION. RESPECTFULLY. MR. STEVEN ALLEN ADRIAN SHANNON. US ARMY ( INFANTRY)

Always a warm and sincere hello from everyone you walk past. Love this place.

I have been coming here for over 20 years for all my medical needs. I am a female vet, and my provider, the staff, ancillary services, pharmacy are all top notch. I happily drive the 60+ miles to continue getting this exceptional care!!

After an intake, I wanna ask questions, the social worker didn't seem to understand half the questions or couldn't come up with half the answers. And when I told her, I have to record this cause, I have a traumatic brain injury, she said, somebody will contact you later on and hung up on me, not an extension, not. Anything so I contacted patient. Advocate have I heard back from them and contacted the unit and social work with Lebanon at 4828 extension. It's unacceptable to me, I'm a green beret with 5 combat tours, I don't expect more, and I sure as hell don't expect less. If somebody could go back to me, maybe they'll get back to me on Whatever.nThis is a review.I would appreciate it thank you very much.If nobody told the workers there, thank you for everything you guys do cause.We do appreciate itnWith wa

If you are looking for a hospital where most everyone is respectful, greets you with a smile, thanks you for your military service, but are grossly incompetent medical practitioners, this is the place for you! My elderly father always boasted how he never had to wait at his appointments and always received glowing medical reports. Then, in 2025 he went to the VA ER with severe upper back pain, to the point he could barely get out of bed (he blamed it on a load of laundry he did the previous day, presuming he must have pulled a shoulder muscle). The VA medical team assessed him and sent him home with some pain killers. But a pharmacist friend of ours in Maryland said, "It sounds like your dad has pneumonia." We dismissed it, figuring the "skilled team" at the VA knew better than our pharmacist friend. Man, were we wrong! Five days later my dad got rushed back to the VA medical center and with septic shock, severe pneumonia, over five liters of highly infected dark brown fluid in his lungs, chest pains, shortness of breath, blood pressure in the 60s! Multiple times he almost died and was hanging on by a thread. But he slowly started to improve with big doses of IV antibiotics and a line draining fluid out of his lung cavity. As he slowly woke up out of almost a coma state I would come to visit and check up on him at least twice a day (morning and evening). Every time I came, if there was a tray of food, it would be stone cold, having sat there for hours, and not a single person had tried to feed him. I had to spoon feed him broth and soft foods in order for him to get some nutrition. Heck, the nurses never even helped him drink his Ensure protein drinks! Then when he finally got moved to the VA ICU he had a deep pressure wound on his backside due to having laid on a cord in the ER for days on end! The pressure wound took over a month to fully heal. After several weeks (the last stage being a general care room with PT and OT) the VA determined my dad was well enough to be discharged to a rehab clinic. But just six days later in the rehab place my dad again started to experience shortness of breath and chest pains and the rehab clinic called for an ambulance. Thankfully the VA did not have any beds available in their ER and he was taken to WellSpan (also in Lebanon). In less than 24 hours WellSpan determined my dad had a serious heart condition, with an ejection fraction of just 20%! They ran a catheter a found one artery 100% blocked and another artery 90% blocked! For the my dad to be in the care of the VA for over a month and for them to never diagnose this major heart issue is beyond comprehension. They are not just guilty of negligence and incompetence, but malpractice! And to think the Lebanon VA Medical Center is rated one of the best VAs in the country is a sobering statistic. To conclude, if you have any desire to be treated by competent medical staff, avoid this place like the plague!

I don’t post stuff like this often, but I’m done staying quiet when it comes to veteran care—especially prosthetics. Back in August I had an abscess form on the back of my residual limb. What started as an ER visit turned into being transferred to Penn State Hershey for surgery. After that, I spent three months doing wet-to-dry packing in a golf-ball-sized wound until it healed from the inside out. For those three months I couldn’t wear my prosthetic, which meant I couldn’t walk. Once I finally healed, my team at Hanger Prosthetics recommended trying a different socket system to prevent this from happening again. The VA approved an airlock socket that combines suction suspension and pin-lock. We gave it a real try—but the restriction in knee mobility made basic things like getting in and out of my car difficult, and the suction component caused significant pain at the bottom of my residual limb to the point I felt like I couldn’t wear the leg at all. Hanger’s recommendation was to switch back to a pin-lock, but add a flexible inner socket to better handle volume fluctuation. (For the record, I’ve dealt with limb-volume changes for a long time, and after the abscess my limb size changed again once the inflammation fully resolved.) That meant I needed the Lebanon VA to write a new order for a new socket. Here’s the part I need to say out loud: during my visit, I was met with visible frustration and hesitation, and I was told—directly—by the prosthetic doctor that she “pays taxes” and needed to think about the financial situation of ordering a new socket so soon, because “we can’t just be trying things” if it “wastes tax dollars.” That was incredibly discouraging to hear as a veteran whose mobility and daily function depend on a properly fitting prosthetic. We didn’t know the airlock socket wouldn’t work for me until we tried it—and the goal was preventing future breakdowns and keeping me walking. The order was ultimately written, but I’m posting this because veteran care should never come with shame, guilt, or comments that frame mobility as a burden. Prosthetic care is healthcare. Functional mobility matters. If leadership at the Lebanon VA sees this, I hope it’s taken seriously and handled appropriately—because veterans deserve to be treated like people, not line items.