I posted a good while ago about this.
Clinical files (yah va actually considered str8 a clinic) are required by law in va to be held for the duration of treatment +5 years. Afterward....well, your guess is as good as mine as there is no mandate to destroy clinical files by law in VA; which means the clinic is not required to do it but 99.99% do it anyway because they don?t want to be burdened with the storage liability.
So what did str8 va (Springfield) do with your records? Ha ha ha...They fucking left them in the mezzanine (where we staff members used to go and smoke). I am not kidding about this as myself and another person went in the building thru the giant hole in the wall and went up into where the historical records were at (we were looking for his old records and did not find them). They had taken most of them -when I was on staff I saw the historical records files - there were a whole lot of them probably a couple of hundred boxes. What was left were old records from 85, 84, etc and the old homes assignments and other paperwork MI's, Phase Logs, Homes, Progress reports and so on.
It really didn't matter to me cuz I had taken my records and some other peoples who had asked me to do so and I gave them to the rightful owners along with the intake cassette, and anything else I felt was relevant.
So if you are looking for your old records you will not find them - not a chance in hell. None of that stuff was termed Clinical Confidential or subject to Federal Privacy Act. Pretty much you and I were never at str8 and there is almost no evidence of it.