Talk:List of Veterans Affairs medical facilities

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Initial draft of VA medical facilities by state. I think the one article is going to be too large, considering splitting up into:

"List of Veterans Affairs Medical Facilities by State""

"List of Veterans Affairs Medical Facilities Alabama"

"List of Veterans Affairs Medical Facilities Alaska"

etc..

Which could then have address and telephone numbers listed. <> Who 19:41, 27 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Bizarre categorization

Currently, the list seems to be by state, then facility type, then city; however, the facility names often seem contradict the facility categories. For example, in California, there is a section labeled "Outpatient Clinic", which has a bunch of facilities labeled "CBOC" and "OPC", then a section labeled "Community Based Outpatient Clinic", which seems to have different facilities also labeled "CBOC" and "OPC". What's the difference? Is the organizational structure different than the clinic names imply? Or is it all just a mess? If the facilities were named the same as the category, the list could probably become much more compact. --Closeapple 06:39, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

Answer (though I didn't write the page): CBOC's are the "community based outpatient clinics," which are free standing clinics not attached to an acute care hospital. However, the categorizations on this page do not seem to be right. The Philadelphia clinic is not a CBOC...outpatient clinics in Philadelphia are part of the medical center and not referred to as CBOCs.

I do have a question, though....does anyone have a better description of the medical center/hospitals? Some are long term or intermediate term care. For instance, Philadelphia Medical Center stands for both a @ 150 bed hospital and a separate 240 bed nursing home care unit....is there a list of info @ all the centers somewhere rather than clicking through them one-by-one on the VA's main site?