The Indian River VA Clinic in Vero Beach — Vero Beach, Florida

The Indian River VA Clinic sits at 777 37th Street on the north side of mainland Vero Beach, and it is run by the West Palm Beach VA Healthcare System rather than by Indian River County or the City of Vero Beach. The VA facility page splits the address across three buildings: Building A, suite 101; Building B, suite 104; and Building C, suite 105, all under ZIP code 32960-4873. That three-building layout matters for anyone arriving on 37th Street, because different services sit in different suites.

The VA calls the site a multi-specialty clinic. Its press release of March 27, 2026 describes the Indian River VA Clinic as the first-ever multi-specialty clinic in Vero Beach. A September 2024 announcement from the same system gave the building's size as 20,000 square feet. Before the 37th Street clinic opened, local veterans in Vero Beach had a primary care clinic on 17th Street, but most specialist visits meant a trip south to the West Palm Beach VA, according to Vero Beach 32963 in its April 2, 2026 edition.

The project was public for about eighteen months before the doors opened. On September 25, 2024, the West Palm Beach VA Healthcare System announced the awarding of a contract for the Vero Beach clinic and said it was set to open its doors in March 2025 at 777 37th Street. Vero Beach 32963 put the cost of the clinic at $8 million.

That March 2025 date did not hold. As Vero Beach 32963 reported, the VA moved the opening to September 2025 in February 2025, and in September 2025 the schedule slipped again, to March 2026 for the first phase and May 2026 for the second. The first phase finally opened on Friday, March 27, 2026, the date given in the VA release from West Palm Beach.

The last week before opening was tight. Vero Beach 32963 reported that county building department records the previous Wednesday still showed several major inspections outstanding for the VA contractor, Excel Construction, and that the Indian River County building department granted all needed approvals on the Friday, with final inspections done just hours before patients came through the doors. The VA treated the first days on 37th Street as a soft opening, with an open house and a more formal grand opening planned for April 2026.

The VA chose a phased opening for the Vero Beach site. According to the March 27, 2026 release, phase one in March brought physical therapy, occupational therapy and chiropractic services. Phase two was expected to begin in May 2026 with audiology, cardiology, dermatology, neurology, podiatry, prosthetics, pulmonary, urology and blood draw services. Phase three was to follow with optometry and dental care, and the VA anticipated full operations at 37th Street by Summer 2026.

The list has been stable since the start. The September 2024 announcement named Audiology, Cardiology, Chiropractic, Dental, Dermatology, Neurology, Optometry, Physical Therapy, Prosthetics, Podiatry, Pulmonology, Urology and Laboratory services as the planned offerings for the Vero Beach Multi-Specialty Clinic, which matches the phased list in substance, with blood draw standing in for laboratory work.

Progress has run behind the Summer 2026 target. The Indian River VA Clinic page, last updated July 31, 2026, shows Phase 1 (physical therapy, occupational therapy and chiropractic) as open, and Phase 2 as open for audiology, podiatry and respiratory services. The same page lists cardiology, dermatology, neurology, prosthetics, pulmonary, urology and blood draw as Phase 2 work in progress, and it now places Phase 3, dental and optometry, in Fall 2026. As of that July update, the dental and optometry suites on 37th Street had not opened.

Published hours for the Vero Beach clinic have changed since opening. In April 2026, West Palm VA spokesperson Andrea Madrazo told Vero Beach 32963 that the clinic was open from 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday, excluding federal holidays. The VA facility page, as updated July 31, 2026, lists 7:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday through Friday and closed Saturday and Sunday, while noting that hours may vary by service at 37th Street.

Access rules are set service by service. On the Indian River VA Clinic page, the audiology, therapy and podiatry listings each say the visit is by appointment only and that a referral is required, with the referral running through the veteran's VA primary care provider. For veterans in Indian River County who wanted to move existing care to the new clinic, Vero Beach 32963 reported a dedicated transition line, 561-422-VERO (8376), in April 2026.

The 37th Street clinic does not replace emergency care or the larger hospital in West Palm Beach. Its role, in the words of the March 2026 release, is to cut the number of trips veterans make out of Indian River County for specialty and diagnostic appointments, once all three phases are running in Vero Beach.

Vero Beach has two VA sites, and the names are easy to confuse. The older one, listed by the VA as the Vero Beach VA Clinic, is at 372 17th Street, ZIP code 32960-5690. Its page lists primary care, internal medicine, nutrition and dietary care, social work and an advice nurse line, with weekday hours of 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and no weekend hours, according to the page as last updated November 4, 2025.

The 17th Street page also carries the access details that apply to VA patients across the Treasure Coast. It describes DAV vans, run with Disabled American Veterans and county veterans affairs directors, that carry veterans and authorized caregivers to scheduled appointments, and it points to beneficiary travel benefits, which can include round trip transportation, mileage reimbursement or special mode transport for those who qualify. Primary care on 17th Street is the usual starting point for the referrals that the specialty suites on 37th Street require.

The VA West Palm Beach locations list names one main location, 7305 North Military Trail in West Palm Beach, and a ring of health clinics: Boca Raton, Delray Beach, Fort Pierce at 1901 South 25th Street, Okeechobee, Port Saint Lucie, Stuart, and the two Vero Beach sites at 777 37th Street and 372 17th Street. The Indian River VA Clinic is the northernmost specialty site in that list, which is why the VA framed it as bringing specialty care to Indian River County.

Indian River County government keeps its own role separate. The Indian River County Veterans Services page lists the Indian River VA Clinic among outside resources for local veterans, next to groups such as the Sebastian Area Veterans Honor Guard and Space Coast Honor Flight, and it carries a disclaimer about third-party listings. The executive director of the West Palm Beach VA Healthcare System, named in both the 2024 and 2026 releases about the Vero Beach clinic, is Cory Price.