Dorn Veterans Medical Center

Name :

Dorn Veterans Medical Center

Address  :

6439 Garners Ferry Road

Town  :

Columbia

State  :

South Carolina

Country  :

USA

Post Code:

29209 1639

Phone  :

803 776 4000

Fax  :

803 695 6739

Web URL  :


Description

About Us
The Wm Jennings Bryan Dorn VA Medical Center is a 216bed facility encompassing acute medical surgical psychiatric and longterm care The hospital provides primary secondary and some tertiary care In 2009 the medical center served 65730 patients There were 707533 outpatient visits and a total of 5518 inpatient treated in fiscal year 2009
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