About the Robert J. Dole VA Medical Center
The Robert J. Dole VA Medical Center is a Joint Commission accredited, complexity level 2 facility located in Wichita, Kansas. Wichita is the largest city in Kansas with a metropolitan population of 500,000. The Medical Center serves over 30,000 Veterans living in 59 counties of the state.
The Medical Center is a primary and secondary care facility. It is a teaching hospital, providing a full range of patient care services, with state-of-the-art technology. Comprehensive health care is provided through primary care, secondary care, and long-term care in areas of medicine, surgery, psychiatry, physical medicine and rehabilitation, cardiology, neurology, oncology, dentistry, visual impairment and low vision rehabilitation, spinal cord dysfunction, TBI, polytrauma, pain management, PTSD, homeless, MHICM, prosthetic laboratory/orthotics, and extended care services.
The Medical Center is part of VHA VISN 15, which includes the Eastern Kansas Health Care System (Topeka & Leavenworth), Kansas City, Columbia, St. Louis, Marion, and Poplar Bluff VA Medical Centers. The geographic region includes: Kansas, Missouri, Southern Illinois, and Southern Indiana.
Community-Based Outpatient Clinics
In addition to our main facility in Wichita, we offer services in six community-based outpatient clinics. These clinics are located in —
- Dodge City, Kansas
- Hays, Kansas
- Hutchinson, Kansas
- Liberal, Kansas
- Parsons, Kansas
- Salina, Kansas
Mission
To improve the health and well being of the Veterans we are honored to serve.
Vision
To be a model health care system, exemplifying our core values of compassion, excellence, commitment, trust and respect.
Key Business Drivers
Our key business drivers are patient/employee safety, continuous improvement and financial responsibility.
Values
Integrity: Act with high moral principle. Adhere to the highest professional standards. Maintain the trust and confidence of all with whom I engage.
Commitment: Work diligently to serve Veterans and other beneficiaries. Be driven by an earnest belief in VA’s mission. Fulfill my individual responsibilities and organizational responsibilities.
Advocacy: Be truly Veteran-centric by identifying, fully considering, and appropriately advancing the interests of Veterans and other beneficiaries.
Respect: Treat all those I serve and with whom I work with dignity and respect. Show respect to earn it.
Excellence: Strive for the highest quality and continuous improvement. Be thoughtful and decisive in leadership, accountable for my actions, willing to admit mistakes, and rigorous in correcting them.
