The Miami VA Healthcare System serves veterans in three South Florida counties: Miami-Dade, Broward, and Monroe, with an estimated veteran population of 285,000. Our parent facility The Bruce W. Carter Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center is located on 26.3 acres with an attached four-story Nursing Home. The Medical Center opened in 1968. It provides general medical, surgical, and psychiatric services. It serves as an AIDS/HIV Center, a Prosthetic Treatment Center, Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitative Center, and Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinical Center. The Bruce W. Carter Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center is recognized as a Center for excellence in Spinal Cord Injury Research, Substance Abuse Treatment, and Chest Pain Center. It is the tertiary referral facility for the West Palm Beach VAMS and provides open-heart surgery to other facilities in Florida. To enhance the delivery of patient care to our veterans in the South Florida area, the Miami VAHS has consolidated laundry service as well as Nutrition and Food Service with the West Palm Beach VAMC.
The Bruce W. Carter Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center operates 191 hospital beds. The bed composition is 34 in Intermediate Care; 82 in Medical; five in Neurology; 32 in Psychiatry; six in Rehabilitation Medicine; 36 in Spinal Cord Injury; and 30 in Surgical. Extended geriatric care is provided in our 120-bed Nursing Home Care Unit plus 58 Psychiatry Rehabilitation beds. Miami is also responsible for two major satellite outpatient clinics located in Sunrise, FL (Broward) and Key West, FL (Monroe), as well as two Readjustment Counseling Centers in Miami and Fort Lauderdale. CBOCs are located in: Homestead (Miami-Dade); Key Largo (Monroe); Pembroke Pines, Hollywood, Deerfield Beach, and Coral Springs (Broward). The Outpatient Substance Abuse Clinic and Healthcare for Homeless Veterans Center is located about one mile from the Medical Center in Downtown Miami.
The Medical Center is staffed and equipped to perform many highly specialized procedures. Some of the sophisticated capabilities and special programs available to patients are:
- Cardiac catherization
- Cardio-pulmonary (open-heart surgery)
- Outpatient psychiatry
- Partial hospitalization (acute care)
- Partial hospitalization (extended care)
- Mental health clinic
- Electron microscopy
- Geriatric psychiatry and geriatric medicine
- Hand/orthopedic surgery
- Hemodialysis center/self-dialysis
- Home dialysis training
- Healthcare for Homeless Veterans
- Hospital-based primary care
- Intensive care units (medical surgical coronary)
- Vietnam Veterans Outreach Centers (Miami and Fort Lauderdale)
- Nursing Home Care Unit
- Nuclear Medicine Service
- Plastic and reconstructive surgery
- Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
- Radiation therapy
- Rehabilitation medicine
- Respiratory therapy/Pulmonary function lab
- Speech pathology
- Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) Center
- SCI home care
- SCI respiratory dependency
- Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinical Center (GRECC)
- Telemedicine
- Research
- Orthopedic surgery
- Neurosurgery
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