Tennessee Valley Healthcare System

TRAFFIC FLOW CHANGES AT TVHS CAMPUSES

For the convenience of Veterans and visitors, TVHS will implement drive-through verbal screenings on March 16th at the Nashville campus.

Veterans and visitors should enter the basement level (yellow level) of the Nashville parking garage from Pierce Ave. The drive-through screenings will operate on weekdays from 6 a.m. - 5 p.m. 

After those hours, Veterans and visitors can enter the Nashville VA through the emergency room screening station. TVHS will continue to conduct screening measures inside each facility to ensure the safety of Veterans, visitors, and staff.

Drive-through screenings will begin at Alvin C. York on March 18th. That information will be provided on Monday, March 16th.

TVHS VISITATION RESTRICTIONS

If you are feeling ill, please stay home and call your primary care provider or use My HealtheVet. Please advise the following restrictions are now in place at ALL TVHS sites:

Effective 7AM on Monday 3/16/2020, the following visitation safeguards are in place:   

• If you become sick, stay home, and call ahead to your clinic or VA facility before visiting.
• All patients, visitors, and staff will be screened for COVID-19 at the entrances.
• Outpatients should come to appointments alone if possible, but if necessary, should limit the number of individuals accompanying you to one immediate family member or caregiver.
• Visitors are not allowed in the Community Living Center except for hospice and palliative care patients.
• Visitation to the Intensive Care Unit and Inpatient Wards is discouraged. Absolutely no visitors under age 16.  Visitors are asked to limit to immediate family members and only one at a time allowed in the patient room. 
• Visitation to the Marrow Transplant Unit will be only by direction of the medical staff.

The Center for Disease Control (CDC) reports that some people are at higher risk of getting very sick from COVID-19.  These people include:

• Older adults
• People who have serious chronic medical conditions like:
  • Heart disease
  • Diabetes
  • Lung disease

 To protect our most vulnerable Veterans, Tennessee Valley Healthcare System asks our patients, staff, and visitors to help slow the spread of infection. 

Additional Resources

CDC Website: www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/index.html

VHA Public Health Website:  www.publichhealth.va.gov/n-coronavirus/index.asp

Tennessee Department of Health Website: https://www.tn.gov/health/cedep/ncov.html 

Kentucky Department for Public Health Website: https://chfs.ky.gov/agencies/dph/pages/covid19.aspx