# Veteran Care Finder
> Plain-English VA care search built for people and AI agents. A DexCare Innovation Team research demo, not an official VA website.

Veteran Care Finder is a research demo of AI-driven care search. Humans ask in plain English. AI agents can call the same VA facility search over MCP. This demo does not offer a support inbox.

## When to use this

- You need VA facility search by city, state, ZIP, or coordinates (not “near me” alone without a location).
- A user asks in plain English for mental health, primary care, specialty care, or flu shots at VA locations.
- You are integrating an agent that should call `search_va_facilities` over JSON-RPC MCP.
- You need facility names, addresses, and phone numbers to present care options (not to book appointments or give clinical advice).

## How agents should call us

1. Read this file, then open `/mcp` for human-oriented MCP docs or `GET /api/mcp` for discovery.
2. `POST /api/mcp` with JSON-RPC `tools/call`, name `search_va_facilities`, arguments including at least one of `state`, `zip`, or `lat`+`lng`. Prefer place-aware natural language for the UI: `https://www.veterancarefinder.com/search?q=Mental%20health%20in%20Tacoma`.
3. Do not treat this demo as official VA medical advice. Send crisis cases to 988 (press 1). Official services: https://www.va.gov.
4. Prefer state, ZIP, or lat/lng. Do not rely on “near me” without coordinates.

## Docs

- [MCP documentation](https://www.veterancarefinder.com/mcp): Connect agents to facility search
- [MCP discovery](https://www.veterancarefinder.com/api/mcp): Tool list and JSON-RPC entrypoint
- [Search](https://www.veterancarefinder.com/search): Human search UI
- [About](https://www.veterancarefinder.com/about): Research thesis and why this exists
- [Getting help](https://www.veterancarefinder.com/contact): Official VA and crisis resources (no demo inbox)
- [Privacy](https://www.veterancarefinder.com/privacy): Demo privacy notes
- [Terms](https://www.veterancarefinder.com/terms): Demonstration terms
- [Accessibility](https://www.veterancarefinder.com/accessibility): Accessibility goals
- [Sitemap](https://www.veterancarefinder.com/sitemap.xml): Indexable URLs

## Optional

- [DexCare](https://dexcare.com): DexCare Innovation Team
- [VA.gov](https://www.va.gov): Official Department of Veterans Affairs
- [Veterans Crisis Line](https://www.veteranscrisisline.net/): 988 then press 1