University of California, Los Angeles VA Greater Los Angeles Internal Medicine Training Program

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The VA Greater Los Angeles Veterans Affairs Healthcare System is the largest VA complex in the country with 945 inpatient beds and 3,800 employees. It is also a major research center sponsoring ~600 ongoing research projects in the basic and clinical sciences and health services (outcomes). The annual operating budget is ~$500 million dollars. The Medical Center provides medical care to a large primary care population in Los Angeles in addition to serving as a tertiary-referral facility for the southwestern United States. It draws patients from as far away as Santa Barbara, Ventura County, the San Joaquin Valley, and portions of Southern Nevada. Our patient population encompasses the entire spectrum of Internal Medicine, with 5,000 patients admitted to the medical service yearly. The hospital has a brand new inpatient Surgical Center (operating room) and newly constructed Interventional Procedure Center which includes Interventional Radiology, ERCP, and Colonoscopy and Endoscopy suites. The MICU and CCU will undergo a major remodel in October 2005.

The Medicine Beds are distributed as follows:

• Medical/Surgical Wards: 86 beds
• Emergency Department: 16 beds
• Cardiology: 19 (including 9 CCU)
• High Intensity Care Unit (HICU): 12 beds
• Medical ICU (MICU): 8 beds
• Surgical ICU (overflow): 9 beds
  

The Medical Center provides medical, surgical, mental health, geriatric, dental, specialty imaging and interventional radiology, radiation oncology, and advanced rehabilitative services. Faculty are members of the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. The UCLA – Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System sponsors five intrinsic residency programs (Internal Medicine, Pathology, Dentistry, Nuclear Medicine, and Rehabilitation Medicine). Residents from the UCLA Center for the Health Sciences (Ophthalmology, ENT, Thoracic Surgery, General Surgery, Neurology, Neurosurgery, Cardiothoracic Surgery, Radiology, Urology, Orthopedics, and Dermatology) spend significant time here at the VA.

The Sepulveda Ambulatory Care Center is a state-of-the-art new ambulatory care facility located on 160 acres approximately 25 minutes North of the West Los Angeles VA Medical Center. The Sepulveda VA was the premiere site of the Veterans Affair’s Pilot Ambulatory Care and Education Project, later renamed Primary Ambulatory Care and Education (PACE). The program has served as a national model of providing education and patient care in an ambulatory setting.