VA Palo Alto Health Care System

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VA Palo Alto Health Care System
Location	United States
Services	Healthcare
Website	www.paloalto.va.gov

The VA Palo Alto Health Care System (VAPAHCS) is a United States Department of Veterans Affairs healthcare group located in California that consists of three inpatient facilities (VA Palo Alto Hospital, Menlo Park VA Hospital, and Livermore VA Hospital), plus seven outpatient clinics in San Jose, Capitola, Monterey, Stockton, Modesto, Sonora, and Fremont.

Description

VAPAHCS is a teaching hospital associated with the Stanford University School of Medicine. It provides patient care services as well as education and research. Health care is provided in areas of medicine, surgery, psychiatry, rehabilitation, neurology, oncology, dentistry, geriatrics, and extended care. At VAPAHCS, 1,300 university residents, interns, and students are trained annually.

VAPAHCS operates nearly 900 beds, including three nursing homes and a 100-bed homeless domiciliary serving more than 85,000 enrolled veterans.

Treatment centers

VAPAHCS is home to a variety of regional treatment centers, including a Polytrauma Rehabilitation Center, Spinal Cord Injury Center, a Comprehensive Rehabilitation Center, a Traumatic Brain Injury Center, the Western Blind Rehabilitation Center, a Geriatric Research Educational and Clinical Center, a Homeless Veterans Rehabilitation program, and the National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).

Research

VAPAHCS maintains the third largest research program in the VA with extensive research centers in geriatrics, mental health, Alzheimer's disease, spinal cord regeneration, schizophrenia, Rehabilitation Research and Development Center, HIV research, and a Health Economics Resource Center.

References

This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Government

"VA Palo Alto Health Care System: Research". U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs. 17 April 2015. Retrieved 28 September 2015. VAPAHCS has the third largest research program in VHA. . .

v t e Palo Alto, California
Santa Clara County, California, United States
Primary and secondary schools	Palo Alto Unified School District Gunn High School Palo Alto High School Walter Hays School Los Altos School District Mountain View–Los Altos Union High School District Castilleja School International School of the Peninsula Kehillah Jewish High School
Colleges and universities	Stanford University Palo Alto University Sofia University
Landmarks	Arastradero Preserve Baylands Nature Reserve Black Mountain El Palo Alto San Francisquito Creek
Historic Places	Frenchman's Tower HP Garage Professorville Ramona Street Architectural District Stanford Theatre
Transportation	SamTrans VTA Caltrain Palo Alto station California Ave. station Palo Alto Airport Bayshore Freeway Interstate 280 State routes Route 35 Route 82
Commercial centers	Stanford Research Park Stanford Shopping Center
Healthcare	Stanford University Medical Center Lucile Packard Children's Hospital VA Palo Alto Hospital Palo Alto Medical Foundation
Misc	People
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v t e Menlo Park, California
San Mateo County, California, United States
Primary and secondary schools	Sequoia Union High School District Menlo-Atherton High School TIDE Academy Mid-Peninsula High School Las Lomitas Elementary School District Menlo Park City School District Phillips Brooks School Trinity School
Colleges and universities	Saint Patrick's Seminary and University Fuller Seminary Northern California
Landmarks	Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge San Francisquito Creek SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Historic Places	Church of the Nativity
Transportation	SamTrans Caltrain Menlo Park station Dumbarton Bridge Bayshore Freeway Interstate 280 State routes Route 82 Route 109 Route 114
Commercial centers	Sand Hill Road
Healthcare	VA Menlo Park Hospital
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