Elwood “Bud” Link Department of Veterans Affairs Outpatient Clinic

Our Audiology and Speech Pathology clinic provides diagnostic and rehabilitative services, and screening for employee hearing conservation. We offer a full range of audiology and speech pathology services like:

• Comprehensive hearing  evaluations
• Evaluation and treatment of tinnitus
• Services that help with speech, language, fluency, voice, cognitive communication, swallowing, stuttering, and laryngectomy
• Selection, management, and repair of hearing aids and assistive listening devices. All services, including hearing aid repairs, will require a scheduled appointment. 

Learn more about VA hearing aids

Our optometrists provide many eye-related services and treatments like:

• Vision services and eye exams
• Treatment for diseases and injuries of the retina, cornea, and other parts of your eye
• Low-vision services for conditions like macular degeneration that can't be corrected by glasses, surgery, or medication
• Special eye exams for diabetic patients

Learn more about our Eye Services here. 

Physical therapy, occupational therapy and kinesiotherapy can help restore movement and function if you have been disabled by injury or disease.

If you're living with or recovering from an injury, illness, or chronic condition that limits your mobility and independence, we can help. Our physical, occupational, and movement therapists combine therapeutic exercise, counseling, education, and training to help you improve your health and quality of life. Our services include:

• Pain relief and joint mobilization
• Movement and exercise therapies to improve your strength, endurance, balance, and coordination
• Mobility assessment and training with wheelchairs, scooters, and walking devices
• Life skills training and activities to help you maintain the highest level of independence and functionality
• Aquatic therapy to manage chronic pain
• Evaluation and treatment for a wide range of medical, orthopedic, psychosocial, and neurological conditions

Pelvic floor physical therapy is now available 

Pelvic floor physical therapists help people when they have problems with abdomen, pelvis and pelvic floor muscles, which may result from surgeries, injuries, chronic stress and anxiety or sometimes just develop over time. They can happen at any age and effect both men and women. These problems may include:

• Back, pelvic, abdominal and perineal pain
• Urinary urgency, frequency, incontinence, or difficulty going
• Bowel urgency, incontinence and constipation
• Pain with intimacy

If you have any of these issues, please consider coming to see the pelvic floor physical therapist here at Spokane VA. She will meet with you privately to discuss your concerns, do a thorough physical examination (within your comfort zone), and determine a plan of care. Call to schedule an appointment.

Your VA primary care provider will work closely with you to plan for all the care you need to stay healthy and well throughout your life, including immunizations and vaccinations. They will also work with family members or caregivers who support you.

A strong network of family and internal medicine specialists and services can offer you the best possible care. Internal medicine doctors (internists) prevent, diagnose, and treat adult diseases. Doctors who specialize in family medicine provide primary health care to the entire family. Your primary care team can coordinate the many services you receive such as:

• Home Based Primary Care
• Labs and blood work
• Mental health care
• Radiology
• Social services
• Telehealth
• Women's health care
• Remote Patient Monitoring- Home Telehealth

Spokane VA and its associated clinics can administer your annual flu shot at your next scheduled appointment or on a walk-in basis. Please call for further information.