Amarillo VA Health Care System

Details

Name :

Amarillo VA Health Care System

Address  :

6010 Amarillo Boulevard, West

Town  :

Amarillo

State  :

Texas

Country  :

USA

Post Code:

79106

Phone  :

806 355 9703

Fax  :

806 354 7860

Web URL  :


Description

The Amarillo VA Health Care System a division of the Southwest VA Health Care Network VISN 18 provides primary specialty and extended care of the highest quality to veterans throughout the Texas and Oklahoma panhandles eastern Mew Mexico and southern Kansas Approximatlely 25000 patients are treated annually The health care system maintains 69 acute care inpatient beds for general medical surgical and intensive care Geriatric and extended care is provided in the 120bed skilled nursing home care unit A modern ambulatory care center and medical arts building facilitates the delivery of primary care specialty care and preventive health services The Amarillo VA Health Care System also ensures health care is accessible to those veterans residing in rural areas through five communitybased outpatient clinics located in Childress Lubbock and Stratford TX and Clovis NM and Liberal KS

Affiliations with Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center West Texas AampM University Amarillo College and Northeastern State University enable a wide variety of advanced educational opportunities in medicine pharmacy optometry and allied health programs



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