The Western North Carolina VA Health Care System includes the Charles George VA Medical Center in Asheville and VA Clinics in Forest City, Franklin and Hickory. We consider it our privilege to serve your health care needs in any way we can. Services are available to more than 100,000 veterans living in a 19-county area of Western North Carolina. The Medical Center is named in honor of Medal of Honor recipient and member of the Cherokee Nation Charles George. This page provides a forum for learning how VA provides health care, benefits, and burial and memorial services to our nation's Veterans. The purpose of this page is for VA to post and comment on questions and concerns regarding VA's mission, and to allow veterans, service members, their spouses and families the opportunity to dialogue regarding these issues. Please note this page does not exist to provide individual medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. It is not continuously monitored and does not provide emergency services. If you think you may have a medical emergency, call 911 immediately. If you are in emotional crisis, or are concerned about a Veteran or current service member, call the Veterans Crisis Line at 1-800-273-8255 (press "1"). On this page, the CGVAMC aims to create an open discussion and encourages helpful and useful comments regarding the applicable topics. While VA will not collect or retain these comments in our records, posted comments and images do not necessarily represent the views of VA. This is a public forum and any information provided in comments will be available to the general public on Facebook and the privacy policies of Facebook apply. As such, the user agrees that he/she will not:
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