VA Black Hills Healthcare Fort Meade

By and large the best VA I've ever been to...as a veteran after 8 years active duty, having been stationed across the map, that says a lot. ❤️

Ft. Meade is trash 🔥🗑 recently separated from service and have come here for care/help on several occasions. My first provider was Michelle Hagen-Prichard (the Old Hag) photo attached. I met with her on 3 separate occasions and each time I was met with a condencending tone, and she kept down playing my concerns and injuries. I finally went to a doctor out in town who took my concerns serious and found them to be valid. After this, I returned to the VA and met with the Hag again. Once she found out I went to another doctor, she became irritated and told me I just needed to continue to see that doctor she would print out my medications and I could just get those filled out in town as well (in other words, Don't Come Back to the VA). I also had two Mental Health appointments which were also trash. On both occasions I was told I do not qualify for a PTSD screen since I am not "in active fear of loosing my life". They also said "we're not going to talk about the past..." but wanted to have me looks at pictures to numb me of the past. How is this possible if you dont know what happened. This Mental Health provider was also definitely trying to push medication 💊 on me which I did not agree with at all. Knowing the statement about PTSD was not true, I also saught help out in town for Mental Health. The care I was getting at the Ft. Meade VA was less that sub-par. Dealing with the VA I feel like I'm out here begging for scraps. It's no wonder why we loose 22 vets a day. Ft. Meade needs to do better!

I have been a patient of Dr. Faraz since I can remember. I want to thank her in this review and tell the VA and the veteran community that my experience here was absolutely GREAT! Dr. Faraz truly cares about her patient and Richard Bacus would get back to me within hours of the messages I sent to the clinic. Both are very professional and THANK YOU!

Wonderful experience for my husbands hospital stay and my experience in the ER

The BH VA does NOT care about the health of the veterans. Instead you are a number, that is tolerated and ultimately ignored. The whole program needs to be completely trashed as the providers and admins prove on a daily basis that they do not care about the health of veterans.

NOVEMBER13 2023.MEADE SOUTH DAKOTA, /STURGIS SD, HAD A APPOINTMENT, COMPLAINED ABOUT BACK PAIN,ALL THEY DID WAS GIVE ME ACETAMINOPHEN, THEY DIDN'T EVEN GIVE ME A EXRAY ENDS UP I NEED BACK SURGERY,, I CAN'T AFFORD TO KEEP COMING BACK TO AMERICA, I'M IN EXCRUCIATING PAIN AND HAVE TO USE A WALKER AROUND THE HOUSE AND A WHEEL CHAIR WHEN I GO OUT,I'M NOT GOING TO LIVE IN THIS PAIN, SO I STOPPED TAKING MY HEART, THYROID, AND ALL MY MEDICATIONS EXCEPT FOR ANT DEPRESSION MEDS, I'M ON 70% DISABILITY, FOR MAJOR DEPPRESION DISORDER (MDD)NOW I'M JUST WAITING FOR NATURE TO TAKE IT'S COURSE AND I CAN DIE, MY WIFE CAN GET, SURVIVORS BENEFITS, MY (VETERANS SERVICE OFFICER JESSICA OUT OF DICKINSON ND) WON'T TALK TO ME, BECAUSE I TOLD HER IF THIS PAIN CONTINUES I WILL KILL MYSELF WHICH I TRIED WITH A BUNCH OF PILLS THAT DIDN'T WORK, ALL I CAN HOPE FOR IS DEATH COMES SOON THANKS VETERANS ADMINISTRATION

First time colonoscoy and the nurses, anesthesist, and doctor were all PERFECT. 2/28/2023 10am check in.

Love it. I am treated very good. I matter here. Very caring staff.