Site Profile: Hunter Holmes McGuire VA Medical Center

McGuire VA Medical Center, located in Richmond, Virginia, is a 409-bed facility and tertiary care referral center for traumatic brain injury (TBI). The Polytrauma Rehabilitation Center (PRC) is one of four facilities in the country designed to provide intensive rehabilitative care to Veterans and Service Members with severe trauma injuries such as TBI.

The center has a capacity of 15 inpatient beds and provides medical rehabilitation services by a team of clinical specialists including physiatrists, rehabilitation nurses, social work case managers, neuropsychologists, rehabilitation psychologists, speech language pathologists, and physical, occupational, kinesio- and recreation therapists, as well as a Department of Defense (DoD) Military and Veterans Liaison.

In addition to inpatient interdisciplinary treatment, case management and family education, the center offers a wide array of outpatient services. Patients have access to interdisciplinary day programming, individualized treatment plans, and outpatient clinics specializing in the identification and management of TBI.

In 2007, the Polytrauma Transitional Rehabilitation Program (PTRP) was formed to focus on post-acute cognitive retraining and community re-integration. PTRP offers health and wellness programming, along with vocational and cognitive rehabilitation. Later this year, patients will move into a brand new, state-of-the-art facility.

West Point Alumni Serve as Mentors for Wounded Warriors

Richmond Times-Dispatch By Bill Lohmann Published: December 11, 2009

Before their first meeting last summer, Brian Pearce and George Nyfeler were nervous.

"I didn't really know what we were going to get into," Pearce said.

"We probably both had butterflies in our stomachs," Nyfeler said.

They needn't have worried. They hit it off big time, sharing stories about their time in the military and just about everything else.

"It took a long time to get our stories out, and on about the fourth visit I said, 'We need to take 10 minutes at the end and jot down some potential goals,'" Nyfeler recalled with a laugh, goal-setting being one of the reasons they were getting together.