Overton Brooks Va Med Center

Description

About Us
The Overton Brooks VAMC and our associated CBOCs Community Based Outpatient Clinics are part of the South Central Health Care Network VISN 16 quotVISNquot stands for Veterans Integrated Service Network and is one of 22 VISNs in the US Department of Veterans Affairs VISN 16 provides comprehensive inpatient and outpatient health care and limited nursing home and domiciliary care to eligible veterans of the US Armed Services health care services are provided through a network of medical centers outpatient clinics nursing homes and domiciliaries located in Arkansas Louisiana Mississippi Oklahoma and Texas

VHA Mission Statement
The mission of the Veterans Healthcare System is to serve the needs of Americas veterans by providing primary care specialized care and related medical and social support services To accomplish this mission VHA needs to be a comprehensive integrated healthcare system that provides excellence in health care value excellence in service as defined by its customers and excellence in education and research and needs to be an organization characterized by exceptional accountability and by being an employer of choice

VHA Vision Statement
Healthcare Value begins with VA The new Veterans Healthcare System supports innovation empowerment productivity accountability and continuous improvement Working together we provide a continuum of high quality health care in a convenient responsive caring manner and at a reasonable cost

Core Values
Trust

Respect

Excellence

Compassion

Commitment

History

The Overton Brooks VAMC is located in the northwestern corner of the state of Louisiana in Shreveport

Congress authorized the Shreveport VA Hospital in 1946 Construction began on the facility in 1947 and the first patient was admitted in 1950 The Hospital originally housed around 450 inpatient beds with minimal outpatient activity

The Hospital was renamed the Overton Brooks VA Medical Center in 1988 in honor of former Louisiana 4th District Congressman Overton Brooks who is credited with placing the Medical Center in Shreveport

Over the years as health care has moved from the inpatient arena to outpatient services the hospital has reduced the bed level from the original number to 100 beds today Outpatient visits on the other hand have gone up dramatically to well over 200000 visits per year The Medical Center serves a population of over 131000 veterans residing within its primary service area which encompasses 15 northeast Texas counties five southwestern Arkansas counties and 12 northwest Louisiana parishes

The Medical Center is affiliated with the Louisiana State University School of Medicine in Shreveport and has sharing agreements with the 2d Medical Group at Barksdale AFB and LSU Health Sciences Center The VAMC provides tertiary care in medicine surgery neurology and psychiatry and a broad spectrum of outpatient services The Ambulatory Care Program provides primary care services at the VAMC and at Community Based Outpatient Clinics CBOCs which were opened in Texarkana Texas 1994 Monroe Louisiana 1995 and Longview Texas 1999