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Togus VA Medical Center is a facility operated by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs in Chelsea, Maine. The facility was built as a resort hotel, and housed Union veterans of the American Civil War prior to being converted to a veterans hospital. It was the first veterans facility developed by the United States government.
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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.
The site that is now the Togus VA facility is the first veterans facility established by the United States. It was established by an act of Congress in 1866, to provide a space for "any worthy soldier" who was "suffering such a degree of disability" so as to need such a facility. [ 3 ]
Houlton Regional Hospital Independent: Houlton: Aroostook Yes Active: LincolHealth – Miles Campus MaineHealth Damariscotta: Lincoln Yes Active: Maine Medical Center – Biddeford MaineHealth Biddeford: York: Yes Active: Maine Medical Center – Portland: MaineHealth Portland: Cumberland Yes (Level I) 1874–present Active: Maine Medical ...
Feb. 11—A new state-of-the-art clinic for Maine's veterans is slated to open Monday in Portland, offering more services to more people in one centralized location. The U.S. Department of ...
Veterans' hospitals and medical facilities of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). Veterans' hospitals and medical clinics administered by and/or affiliated with the VA. The main article for this category is List of Veterans Affairs medical facilities .
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