San Francisco VA Medical Center
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The San Francisco VA Medical Center, also called the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center or the SFVAMC, is a Veterans Affairs medical center, located in San Francisco. The main facility is on 42nd Avenue and Clement Street at the former Fort Miley Military Reservation in the Richmond District.[1] Fort Miley is located south of the Golden Gate and west of the San Francisco Presidio, on Point Lobos (San Francisco) surrounded by the Golden Gate National Recreation Area.[1]
SFVAMC has the largest funded research program in the Veterans Health Administration with $90.2 million in research expenditures (2015).[2] It serves as a teaching hospital for the UCSF School of Medicine.
Achievements
SFVAMC has several National Centers of Excellence in the areas of: Epilepsy treatment; Cardiac surgery; Posttraumatic stress disorder; HIV; and Renal dialysis.[2]
The SFVAMC's "Telephone Linked Care Program" is accredited by the URAC.[6]
