he Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is pleased to announce the appointment of Rebecca Stackhouse as the new director of the Salem VA Medical Center. Stackhouse will oversee delivery of health care to more than 38,000 Veterans in the Salem VAMC, a complexity level 1-C facility serving Veterans in southwestern Virginia. The VA Medical Center is located in Salem, Virginia, with community based outpatient clinics (CBOC) in Lynchburg, Wytheville, Staunton, Danville and Tazewell. The medical center operates with a budget in excess of $267 million.
“Ms. Stackhouse has excelled in all that VA has asked and I’m confident she will continue to achieve outstanding results,” said Daniel F. Hoffmann, VISN 6 Director. “I’m very glad that we could keep her in VISN 6 where she can apply her experience to Veterans under our network’s umbrella of care.”
Stackhouse has held progressive leadership positions in VA, including her current assignment as interim director of the Salem VA Medical Center, where she has been Associate Director since 2012, following a two-year appointment as Associate Director of the William Jennings Bryan Dorn VA Medical Center in Columbia, S.C., and earlier positions in Lebanon, Pa., Memphis, Tenn. and Palo Alto, Ca.
Stackhouse holds a master’s degree in Health Administration and bachelor’s degree in Recreation Therapy from Central Michigan University. She is a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives, and a graduate of the Veterans Health Administration’s Executive Career Field Development Program and Network Executive Health Care Leadership Institute.
The medical center has been caring for Veterans for more than 75 years. President Franklin Roosevelt presided over the opening ceremony on Oct. 19, 1934. Since 1934, Salem VAMC has been improving the health of the men and women who have so proudly served our nation. Services are available through the system to more than 112,500 Veterans living in a 26-county area of southwestern Virginia.
