VAGLAHS

SEPULVEDA CAMPUS, VETERANS ADMINISTRATION GREATER LOS ANGELES  HEALTHCARE SYSTEM
The Sepulveda Campus of the VA Greater LA Healthcare System is housed on some of the most expansive grounds of any hospital in the country.  Located in the North San Fernando Valley, it faces the Santa Monica Mountains.  Visitors approaching from the southeast are greeted by an orange grove.  The complex offers many amenities, including a nine-hole golf course, 440 track, two tennis courts, two baseball diamonds, an indoor swimming pool, a gymnasium, and fully equipped weight and exercise rooms.

A newly constructed state-of-the-art outpatient building has further enhanced the emergence of the Sepulveda Campus of the VAGLAHS as a premier ambulatory care & research center.

S-VAGLAHS also has a Substance Abuse Treatment and Detoxification Program, Day Treatment and Vocational Rehabilitation Programs, an outpatient Geropsychiatry service, and an inpatient ward at the West Los Angeles Campus of the VAGLAHS.

As a major training center in the San Fernando Valley, the Sepulveda Campus of the VAGLAHS receives trainees from throughout the Los Angeles County area.  There are medical students from UCLA Medical School; psychology interns rotating from the University of Southern California, Fuller Graduate School of Psychology, and California State University, Northridge; occupational therapist trainees, nursing students, art therapy trainees, social work trainees, and mental health associate trainees from various educational institutions.  The Psychiatry Service encourages an interdisciplinary approach among all mental health professionals.

S-VAGLAHS is connected by freeways to OVMC and the two are only fifteen minutes apart.

PACE

A unique program in comprehensive ambulatory care has been functioning here since 1990.  This experimental program comprises of teams of internists, psychiatrists, and allied health professionals dedicated to providing diagnostic and treatment services in a multidisciplinary setting.  Psychiatry residents and medical students rotate through this service.

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