Lake City VA Medical Center
Lake City VA Medical Center · Lake City, FL — part of the North Florida/South Georgia Veterans Health System (VISN 8: VA Sunshine Healthcare Network). VA’s own page for this facility.
The doors
- Main phone: 386-755-3016
- Patient advocates: The system’s patient advocates page names the Lake City advocates as Traci Davis-McGuire and Pamela Smith (VA patient advocates page)
- 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 VA North Florida/South Georgia Veterans Health System in Gainesville (2025-05-20) — Cyclical inspection of the North Florida/South Georgia system - whose two inpatient sites are Gainesville and Lake City (site visit June 4-6, 2024) - found unsecured medications, expired supplies, and unclean care areas among environment-of-care deficiencies, including problems The Joint Commission had flagged in 2022; seven recommendations.
- Comprehensive Healthcare Inspection of the North Florida/South Georgia Veterans Health System in Gainesville, Florida (2021-09-24) — CHIP evaluation of the system Lake City belongs to; the report covers both the Malcom Randall and Lake City divisions, and reviewers found no substantial organizational risk factors in accreditation findings, sentinel events, or disclosures.
- Comprehensive Healthcare Inspection of the North Florida/South Georgia Veterans Health System in Gainesville, Florida (2019-09-27) — CHIP inspectors examined six patient care areas at Lake City and found dirty or dusty ventilation grills in five, unrepaired wall damage in four, and missing, ill-fitting, or stained ceiling tiles in three, among the system’s environment-of-care findings.
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.