Vancouver Health Care in Abundance

Vancouver WA offers expansive network of health care options. Retirees looking to be close to health care facilities will be pleased. Vancouver has two major hospitals: Peacehealth SW Washington Medical Center is the largest hospital in SW Washington with 450 beds and a massive campus filled with a variety of special treatment centers. Legacy Salmon Creek is located at the merger of I-5 and I-205 and offers a wide array of services. Legacy systems is negotiating with OHSU to form a new expanded health are alliance. 

Each of these two hospitals have a large "cottage industry" of medical support offices nearby. Kaiser Permanente does not have a hospital in Vancouver but does have a wide range of medical offices conveniently located around the city. There has been talk in recent years of Kaiser building a hospital in the Vancouver area to support their growing numbers in the region. 

The Vancouver Clinic is a large regional network of clinics all across the city, Clark County and now even Multnomah county offering a wide range of medical services and accepting most insurance.

The Veterans Administration operates a campus at Fort Vancouver which includes a small hospital and most VA services locally. There is a major VA hospital nearby in Portland. 

The Vancouver area offers retirees a wide variety of health care options that combined with Washington's favorable taxation for retirees makes the area highly desirable.