C.W. Bill Young Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center
C.W. Bill Young Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center · Bay Pines, FL — part of the VA Bay Pines Healthcare System. VA’s own page for this facility.
The doors
- Main phone: 727-398-6661
- Patient advocates: The system’s Patient Advocates page (titled Veteran Experience Office) lists patient advocates and patient representatives by name, located on the first floor of the C.W. Bill Young main hospital (Building 100), Monday–Friday 8:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m., with additional representatives at Lee County.
- Leadership: the system’s leadership, as VA publishes it
On the record
What the VA Office of Inspector General has published about this facility, newest first. The summaries are ours; the reports are theirs.
- Healthcare Facility Inspection of the Bay Pines VA Healthcare System in Florida (2026-08-05) — OIG’s focused facility inspection of the Bay Pines system (site visit December 16–18, 2025) closed with zero recommendations.
- Comprehensive Healthcare Inspection of the Bay Pines VA Healthcare System in Florida (2024-04-10) — OIG comprehensive inspection of the Bay Pines system issued eight recommendations spanning leadership, quality, safety and value, environment of care, and mental health.
- Healthcare Inspection – Quality of Care Concerns in Thoracic Surgery, Bay Pines VA Healthcare System, Bay Pines, Florida (2017-08-16) — OIG did not substantiate that a thoracic surgeon was incompetent, but found the focused professional practice evaluation criteria used for privileging were not privilege-specific; two recommendations issued.
If this is your facility
If this is where you or your veteran gets care, the doors above are not the only ones.
- Government Doors — every official channel a family can walk through, in the order that works: patient advocates, the medical center director, the VISN, the Inspector General, your members of Congress.
- Tell Your Story — this site publishes documented family records. If your family’s record belongs next to ours, send it.
- VA OIG Hotline: 800-488-8244 — report suspected wrongdoing, inadequate patient care, or mismanagement straight to the Inspector General.
Atlas data checked 2026-10-24 against VA’s own pages and VA OIG publications. Doors change; if a number or a name here is wrong, tell us — corrections are the point of this site.