Post Provided by the Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Health Care Update: VA Offers Seamless Care for Traveling Veterans or Veterans Seeking Care at an Alternate VA Facility. If you are enrolled and receive your health care with VA, you will receive the same, consistent care, whether at your local VA health care facility or an alternate VA health care facility. In order to help VA ensure you receive consistent care while you are traveling or if you relocate, we ask that you notify your local VA Patient Aligned Care Team (PACT), preferably 4 to 6 weeks prior to departure, or as soon as you are aware. Early planning will allow time for your local PACT and the Traveling Veteran Coordinator to coordinate your care at the alternate VA health care facility. If you are unable to make an appointment to see your PACT or provider in person, you may reach them by telephone or through secure messaging in MyHealtheVet (www.myhealthevet.va.gov). To coordinate your health care with another VA health care facility, you should inform your PACT of the following:
- travel destination(s), and temporary address
- a valid telephone number
- arrival and departure dates
- specific care concerns
