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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.
VA Medical Center: Anchorage: Colonel Mary Louise Rasmuson Campus of the Alaska VA Healthcare System Community Based Outpatient Clinic: Joint Base Elmendorf–Richardson: Elmendorf-Richardson VA Clinic Fairbanks: Fairbanks VA Clinic Homer: Homer VA Clinic Juneau: Juneau VA Clinic Wasilla: Mat-Su VA Clinic Soldotna: Soldotna VA Clinic
The John Minor Wisdom U.S. Court of Appeals Building originally housed a U.S. post office and both federal district and appeals courts. In 1908, the New York architectural firm Hale and Rogers won a design competition for the building, and U.S. Treasury Department officials approved their plans in 1909. Workers broke ground later that year on ...
The New Orleans metropolitan area, designated the New Orleans–Metairie metropolitan statistical area by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, [3] or simply Greater New Orleans (French: Grande Nouvelle-Orléans, Spanish: Gran Nueva Orleans), is a metropolitan statistical area designated by the United States Census Bureau encompassing seven Louisiana parishes—the equivalent of counties ...
It is the twelfth-largest in the U.S. based on cargo value. The Port of South Louisiana, also located in the New Orleans area, is the world's busiest in terms of bulk tonnage. When combined with Port of New Orleans, it forms the 4th-largest port system in volume.
The Faubourg Livaudais area is within the National Register Central City Historic District [3] and has many notable historical buildings and institutions, including up to about twenty churches throughout the area (Third Rose of Sharon Baptist Church, Gloryland Mt. Gillion Baptist Church, Second Mount Carmel Baptist Church, and Mt. Bethel Baptist Church, Pressing Onward Baptist Church, Second ...
The city planning commission for New Orleans divided the city into 13 planning districts and 73 [1] distinct neighborhoods in 1980. Although initially in the study 68 neighborhoods were designated, and later increased by the City Planning Commission to 76 in October 2001 based in census data, [2] most planners, neighborhood associations, researchers, and journalists have since widely adopted ...
Map shows the 17 wards of New Orleans.Not shown: southern portion of the 15th Ward, northeastern portion of the 9th Ward.On the map Lake Pontchartrain is to the north and the Mississippi River is to the south; the 15th Ward is the only one south of the Mississippi River where Algiers is located.