Va San Diego Healthcare System

Details

Name :

Va San Diego Healthcare System

Address  :

3350 Lajolla Village Drive

Town  :

San Diego

State  :

California

Country  :

USA

Post Code:

92161

Phone  :

858 552 8585

Web URL  :


Description

The VA San Diego Healthcare System VASDHS provides high quality health care with advanced technologies and a commitment to friendly compassionate service to more than 241892 veterans in the San Diego and Imperial Valley counties We provide medical surgical mental health geriatric spinal cord injury and advanced rehabilitation services VASDHS has 232 hospital beds including skilled nursing beds and operates several regional referral programs including cardiovascular surgery and spinal cord injury The facility also supports two Vet Centers in San Diego and San Marcos

We are affiliated with the University of California San Diego School of Medicine and provide training for 1567 medical interns residents and fellows as well as 64 other teaching affiliations for nursing pharmacy dental and dietetics VASDHS has one of the largest research programs in the VA nationally with a budget of 522 million FY 2010 185 principal investigators and 534 projects
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