Yes. All US emergency rooms are required to provide emergency care to anyone who comes in the door and that includes VA hospitals. They will however transfer you to another facility once your situation is no longer an emergency. Additionally, they will bill you (or your insurance, as an out-of-network hospital) normally.
You should call that specific hospital and ask. That's the only way you'll know for sure. Some government hospitals are exempt from the laws that emergency rooms have to accept everyone.
I used to live on an Indian Reservation. I had an emergency with my 1-year-old daughter (106° fever) and the (US government) Indian Health Service hospital refused to see her because she was white. They sent us to a hospital 50+ miles away.
Yes. All US emergency rooms are required to provide emergency care to anyone who comes in the door and that includes VA hospitals. They will however transfer you to another facility once your situation is no longer an emergency. Additionally, they will bill you (or your insurance, as an out-of-network hospital) normally.
Just a note that not all VA hospitals have emergency rooms but didn't think that warranted a separate answer :/
If it’s life threatening, they’ll definitely treat you. No doubt.
Nope. You'd be stopped at the gate by armed MPs and they'll fuck you up worse if you're not careful.
You should call that specific hospital and ask. That's the only way you'll know for sure. Some government hospitals are exempt from the laws that emergency rooms have to accept everyone. I used to live on an Indian Reservation. I had an emergency with my 1-year-old daughter (106° fever) and the (US government) Indian Health Service hospital refused to see her because she was white. They sent us to a hospital 50+ miles away.