The closest VA clinic to Oshkosh is up in Appleton, and the nearest VA medical center is down in Milwaukee. We help Winnebago County veterans get the claim itself in order over the phone or on video, so the file is in shape when the VA starts looking at it.
A member of our team will reach out within one business day to schedule your free case review.
VA.gov lists no clinic in Oshkosh itself. The two closest clinics belong to different VA health care systems, and both medical centers are a long haul.
On Tri-Park Way in Appleton, about 19 miles from Oshkosh as the crow flies. It is one of five outpatient clinics VA Milwaukee health care runs in eastern Wisconsin, along with Green Bay, Cleveland, Oconomowoc and Union Grove.
Down in Dodge County, roughly 40 miles to the south as the crow flies. This one reports to VA Madison health care, so it sits in a separate system from the Appleton clinic.
The Clement J. Zablocki VA Medical Center in Milwaukee is about 75 miles away as the crow flies, and Madison’s William S. Middleton Memorial Veterans’ Hospital about 79. Care that only a medical center provides means one of those drives.
The Green Bay Vet Center holds a satellite at the Winnebago County Veterans Service Office, 220 Washington Avenue in Oshkosh, and another at the Winnebago County Human Services Center in Neenah. Counseling is free and confidential. Satellites offer select services, so check hours with the Green Bay Vet Center.
Your own C&P exam may not land at any of these. The appointment notice spells out the place, and the VA regularly sends veterans to contract examiners who work out of their own clinics. If the location or date won’t work, get it rescheduled before the day arrives. Missing an exam without good cause can leave the VA deciding the claim on whatever is already in the file, or denying it.
The Winnebago County Veterans Service Office, on Washington Avenue in Oshkosh, helps county residents with VA disability claims at no charge. Live across the line in Ripon, Fond du Lac or Berlin? Your county has a veterans service officer too. WDVA says there is one in each of Wisconsin’s 72 counties.
Two more routes that cost nothing:
So where do we come in? Our free case review is a phone or video conversation about your service, your conditions and what the VA will want to see. Some veterans will come out of it and file with their county officer, and we’ll tell you when that looks like the better route. You stay the one who files. Our part is helping you understand how the VA will look at the claim.
The Wisconsin National Guard’s 1157th Transportation Company is in Oshkosh. About 20 miles west as the crow flies, Berlin’s Guard armory closed in a September 2026 ceremony, and a detachment of the 1st Battalion, 120th Field Artillery is moving from there to Marshfield. If your service was drill weekends and annual training more than full-time duty, your claim works a little differently.
What decides a Guard or Reserve claim is your duty status on the day the problem started. Federal activations count like any active service. Annual training can cover an injury or an illness that began during it, while a drill weekend generally covers injuries only. That puts the weight on paperwork:
No line of duty report for an old injury? Statements from people who saw it happen can help fill that hole. On a review call we’ll sort what you already have from what’s worth chasing.
From Omro to Ripon, we help veterans near Oshkosh the same way we help everyone in Wisconsin: by phone or video, at a time that suits them.
The Census Bureau’s 2020–2024 estimate puts roughly 9,300 veterans in Winnebago County, about 3,200 of them in the city of Oshkosh. Fond du Lac veterans have a counseling option in town as well: the Milwaukee Vet Center runs a satellite at the Fond du Lac County Government Center.
Each guide below goes deeper. If none fits cleanly, that is what the free review is for.
No. VA.gov lists none in the city. The nearest is the John H. Bradley outpatient clinic in Appleton, about 19 miles as the crow flies, followed by the Beaver Dam VA Clinic at about 40. The Green Bay Vet Center does keep a counseling satellite in Oshkosh on Washington Avenue.
Wherever your exam notice says. It might be the Appleton clinic, a VA medical center or a contract examiner the VA picked. If the time or place won’t work, contact the scheduler before the date passes.
The Winnebago County Veterans Service Office on Washington Avenue in Oshkosh. If you live in Ripon or Fond du Lac, Fond du Lac County’s officer is yours, and Berlin falls under Green Lake County.
Possibly. Injuries from drill weekends, and injuries or illnesses that began during annual training, can be service connected. You’ll need records that put you on duty that day, which is why orders and line of duty paperwork matter so much.
No. We work with Oshkosh veterans by phone and video only, and the first review is free.
Fill in the short form and we’ll set up a free phone or video review of where your claim stands.