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Appointments Only: (800) 733-0502
The San Francisco VA Medical Center (SFVAMC) is renowned for its state-of-the-art acute medical, neurological, surgical and psychiatric care. The MedicalCenter has 124 operating beds and a 120-bed Nursing Home Care Unit. Primary and mental health care is provided at community based outpatient clinics in: Santa Rosa, Eureka, Ukiah, and San Bruno. There is a specialized homeless veterans clinic in downtown San Francisco.
SFVAMC has five National Centers of Excellence. They include: The Center of Excellence for Epilepsy Treatment; Cardiac Surgery; Post Traumatic Stress Disorder; HIV; and Renal Dialysis. It has many other nationally recognized programs including: the Parkinson’s Disease Research, Education, and ClinicalCenter, The Hepatitis C Research and EducationCenter, the Mental Illness Research & Education Clinical Center, and the Western Pacemaker and AICD Surveillance Program.
SFVAMC has the largest funded research programs in the Veterans Health Administration with $78 million annual research budget. Areas of particular interest are: prostate cancer, aging, oncology, hypertension, stroke, cardiovascular disease, Hepatitis C, breast cancer, PTSD, substance abuse, neuroscience disease, health services research, and advanced medical imaging. The Medical Center has three Medical Science Research Enhancement Award Programs (REAP) in neurology research, prostate cancer, and bone research; and one HSR&D REAP in aging research. It is one of the few medical centers in the world equipped for studies using both whole-body magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and spectroscopy, and is the site of VA’s NationalCenter for the Imaging of Neurological Diseases.
In 1988, the Northern California Institute of Research and Education (NCIRE), a private, non-profit, research corporation, was founded on the San Francisco VA Medical Center grounds to administer VA-approved research and related education funding.
The MedicalCenter has been affiliated with the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), School of Medicine for nearly 40 years. All physicians are jointly recruited by SFVAMC and UCSF School of Medicine. SFVAMC has 153 residency and fellow positions and 40 allied health professionals. More than 700 UCSF trainees from 34 programs rotate through the MedicalCenter.
Affiliations
University of California San Francisco
Authorized Beds
124 Authorized, 120 NHCU
Type of Facility
GM&S
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