Battle Creek VA Medical Center
Battle Creek VAMC Announces New Director
Director James Doelling
James Doelling Brings Decades of Nursing & Leadership Experience
The Department of Veterans Affairs is pleased to announce the appointment of James Doelling as the new director at the Battle Creek VA Medical Center (VAMC), effective October 14th. Doelling will oversee the delivery of health care to approximately 45,000 Veterans per year and an operating budget of more than $280 million in the Battle Creek area. Doelling has 30 years of nursing and leadership experience across a host of medical fields, including primary care, mental health, inpatient surgery, acute medicine, telemetry, hospice, intensive care, critical care, and oncology.
“We are excited to bring James Doelling on board as the new director of the Battle Creek VA Medical Center,” said Mr. Robert McDivitt, Veterans Integrated Service Network (VISN) 10 Director. “His decades of hands-on experience across a multitude of medical fields and proven leadership abilities will be valuable assets for the facility, the employees and volunteers, and -- most importantly -- for the Veterans we are honored to serve.”
Doelling has served as the Associate Director, PCS/Nurse Executive, at the VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System since 2015. Doelling began his nursing career as a Medical Oncology Staff Nurse for a hospital in Greenwich, Connecticut in 1988. Doelling joined the VA in 2001 as the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) Nurse Manager at the VAMC in Providence, Rhode Island. He has since held a series of nursing leadership positions at the VA Boston Health Care System and Hines VA Hospital in Illinois before being named Associate Director in LA. James was nominated for the VA Secretary Award, Nurse Executive of the Year, in 2017. James holds an MA in Organizational Management from Springfield College in Boston and a BSN from Duquesne University in Pittsburgh.
