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The closure of Martin Luther King Jr. Multi-Service Ambulatory Care Center in 2007, due to revocation of federal funding after the hospital failed a comprehensive review by the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, had immediate ramifications in the South Los Angeles area, which was left without a major hospital providing indigent care.
An outpatient department or outpatient clinic is the part of a hospital designed for the treatment of outpatients, people with health problems who visit the hospital for diagnosis or treatment, but do not at this time require a bed or to be admitted for overnight care. Modern outpatient departments offer a wide range of treatment services ...
During the pre-civil rights era, John A. Andrew Memorial Hospital served as a center for black physicians in the Deep South to receive postgraduate training, and for black patients to receive care. [2] According to Montague Cobb, it was one of only five first-rate hospitals in the pre-1940s South that treated black patients. [8]
The Akaka Clinic is the largest CBOC, and provides the widest scope of medical services, of the eight CBOCs. VA is planning to extend care into the COFA states. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] This expansion increases the geographic coverage of VAPIHCS and its CBOCs to approximately 8.5 million sq miles, or more than twice the area of the continental United States.
Veterans' health care in the United States is separated geographically into 19 regions (numbered 1, 2, 4–10, 12 and 15–23) [1] known as VISNs, or Veterans Integrated Service Networks, into systems within each network headed by medical centers, and hierarchically within each system by division level of care or type.
Outpatient Clinic: Aurora: Jewell VA Clinic Colorado Springs: PFC Floyd K. Lindstrom Department of Veterans Affairs Clinic Community Based Outpatient Clinic: Alamosa: Alamosa VA Clinic Aurora: VA Eastern Colorado Health Care System – Aurora VA Clinic Burlington: Burlington VA Clinic Craig: Major William Edward Adams Department of Veterans ...
The $12 million center specializes in treating service members with traumatic brain injuries and related conditions such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and chronic pain. It is the 6th Intrepid Spirit Center to open nationally, thanks to a partnership between the U.S. Army and the Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund. [10]
The Turner Center is a women and children specialty outpatient center connected to Cox South. The Jared Neuoro Science Center and The Dee Ann White Women's and Children's hospital are featured in the newest 10 story tower on the campus. In 2010, Cox South opened a new emergency department, and in 2012, it was designated a Level I Trauma Center ...