Birmingham VA Medical Center

Details

Name :

Birmingham VA Medical Center

Address  :

700 S. 19th Street

Town  :

Birmingham

State  :

Alabama

Country  :

USA

Post Code:

35233

Phone  :

205 933 8101

Fax  :

205 933 4484

Web URL  :


Description

The Birmingham VA Medical Center is a 313bed acute tertiary care facility located in the historic Southside district of the city The facility provides acute tertiary medical and surgical care to veterans of Alabama and surrounding states The medical center serves as a referral center for this population area with 136 operating beds Recent construction provides stateoftheart facilities and equipment in all clinical programs Care is provided in practically all medical and surgical specialties and subspecialties Most staff physicians have joint appointments with VA and its primary affiliation University of Alabama at Birmingham The BVAMC operates seven Community Based Outpatient Clinics in North Alabama
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