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VA Greater Los Angeles
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VA Medical Center Network
The VA Greater Los
Angeles Veterans Affairs Healthcare System is the largest
VA complex in the country with 945 inpatient beds and
3,800 employees. It is also a major research center sponsoring
~600 ongoing research projects in the basic and clinical
sciences and health services (outcomes). The annual operating
budget is ~$500 million dollars. The Medical Center provides
medical care to a large primary care population in Los
Angeles in addition to serving as a tertiary-referral
facility for the southwestern United States. It draws
patients from as far away as Santa Barbara, Ventura County,
the San Joaquin Valley, and portions of Southern Nevada.
Our patient population encompasses the entire spectrum
of Internal Medicine, with 5,000 patients admitted to
the medical service yearly. The hospital has a brand new
inpatient Surgical Center (operating room) and newly constructed
Interventional Procedure Center which includes Interventional
Radiology, ERCP, and Colonoscopy and Endoscopy suites.
The MICU and CCU will undergo a major remodel in October
2005.
The Medicine Beds are distributed
as follows:
- Medical/Surgical Wards: 86 beds
- Emergency Department: 16 beds
- Cardiology: 19 (including 9
CCU)
- High Intensity Care Unit (HICU):
12 beds
- Medical ICU (MICU): 8 beds
- Surgical ICU (overflow): 9 beds
The Medical Center provides medical,
surgical, mental health, geriatric, dental, specialty
imaging and interventional radiology, radiation oncology,
and advanced rehabilitative services. Faculty are members
of the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. The UCLA
– Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System sponsors
five intrinsic residency programs (Internal Medicine,
Pathology, Dentistry, Nuclear Medicine, and Rehabilitation
Medicine). Residents from the UCLA Center for the Health
Sciences (Ophthalmology, ENT, Thoracic Surgery, General
Surgery, Neurology, Neurosurgery, Cardiothoracic Surgery,
Radiology, Urology, Orthopedics, and Dermatology) spend
significant time here at the VA.
The Sepulveda Ambulatory Care
Center is a state-of-the-art new ambulatory care facility
located on 160 acres approximately 25 minutes North of
the West Los Angeles VA Medical Center. The Sepulveda
VA was the premiere site of the Veterans Affair’s
Pilot Ambulatory Care and Education Project, later renamed
Primary Ambulatory Care and Education (PACE). The program
has served as a national model of providing education
and patient care in an ambulatory setting.
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