The Cleveland VA Medical Center is a major teaching hospital of the CWRU School of Medicine. The medical center staff is primarily responsible for patient care while the School of Medicine is responsible for undergraduate and resident education and training programs. The house staff training programs are fully integrated with University Hospitals of Cleveland. The affiliation is carried out under the oversight of the Dean's Committee.
The Cleveland VA Medical Center operates 1,191 consolidated hospital beds, 195 nursing home beds, and 75 domiciliary beds. Physical facilities are an inpatient unit in the Wade Park-University Circle area of Cleveland, an inpatient unit in Brecksville, an outpatient clinic in Canton, and two Veterans Outreach Centers in Cleveland. The Wade Park Unit is a 596- bed general hospital with organized inpatient services for medicine, surgery, psychiatry, neurology, rehabilitation medicine, and spinal cord injury. The Brecksville Unit, with 595 hospital beds, provides medical and psychiatric hospital care, along with a 195-bed nursing home care unit and a 75-bed domiciliary.
The medical center has a large and active research service. The Mid-Atlantic Medical Education Center, located at the Brecksville unit, provides special educational programs for VA staff in the region. Except for medical students who receive their psychiatric core clerkship experience at the Brecksville unit, all other medical students and house officers receive their education at the Wade Park unit.
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