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Louisiana VA Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - Page 2
Alexandria VA Health Care System
mail: P. O. Box 69004 Alexandria, LA 71306 
 2495 Shreveport Hwy. 71 North
Pineville, LA 71360
Phone: (318) 473-0010 or (800) 375-8387
Fax: (318) 483-5029

The VA Health Care System, Alexandria, Louisiana consists of the medical center facility located on Shreveport Highway, Pineville, Louisiana.   The Alexandria VAMC also has Community Based Outpatient Clinics (CBOC) in Lafayette, Louisiana serving Lafayette Parish and other surrounding parishes and in Jennings, Louisiana serving Jefferson Davis Parish and other surrounding parishes.

The VAMC Alexandria is categorized as a primary and secondary care facility.  It is a teaching hospital, providing a full range of primary care services with state-of-the-art technology and education.  Comprehensive acute and extended health care is provided on a primary and secondary basis in areas of medicine, surgery, psychiatry, physical medicine and rehabilitation, neurology, oncology, dentistry, geriatrics, and extended care.  The Medical Center serves a potential veteran population of over 100,000 veterans and an active patient roster of over 37,000.  The Alexandria, Louisiana VAMC is a part of VA Network 16, South Central VA Health Care Network, which includes facilities in Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Southeast Texas, and Northwest Florida.

Ambulatory Care services are provided in-house and through community-based clinics in Jennings and Lafayette, Louisiana. Surgical (in-patient and ambulatory) and medical services are provided through two wards, 5 operating rooms, a Post-Anesthesia Care Unit, and ICU.  Tertiary care services are provided through referrals primarily to VAMC’s Shreveport, Jackson, and Houston. The extended care program includes two Nursing Home Care Units, including an 18 bed Alzheimer’s Unit with enclosed walking yard. Alexandria is one of three Specialty Referral Facilities in the VISN for acute and intermediate psychiatric care. VAMC Alexandria receives long-term psychiatry referrals from network facilities and VA facilities in bordering states.

Affiliations
VAMC Alexandria has active affiliations with the Tulane University School of Medicine (with residency programs in preventive medicine and opthalmology) and the LSU School of Medicine (with residency programs in family medicine, clinical pharmacology, and physician assistants). Other affiliations include:
Northeast Louisiana University - speech pathology
Northwestern State University - physical therapy, occupational therapy, and recreation therapy
Louisiana State University – nursing and social work
Our Lady of the Lake University - nursing
Louisiana College - occupational therapy and recreation therapy
Alcorn State University - occupational therapy and recreation therapy
Alexandria Vo-Tech - occupational therapy and recreation therapy
Louisiana State University (Alexandria) - occupational therapy and recreation therapy
Grambling State University - associate dietetics program and recreation therapy
Louisiana Tech University - audiology, psychology, biomedical engineering,  physical therapy, and dietetics
Central Louisiana State Hospital - physical therapy
Xavier University – pharmacy
Southern University - recreation therapy
Tulane University– social work


Special Programs
Adult Day Care Program
Alzheimer's Unit
Chemical Dependency Outpatient Program
Community Home Health
Community Nursing Home Care
Community Residential Care
Home-Based Primary Care
Homeless Program
Homemaker/Home Health Aide (H/HHA) Program
Nursing Home Care Unit
Social Detoxification Residential Treatment Program (SDRT)
Specialty Referral Facility-Psychiatry
Women Veterans Clinic

Information on the Community Based Clinics is listed below.


Community Based Clinics
Jennings VA Out-Patient Clinic
1907 Johnson Street
Jennings, LA 70546
337-824-1000
1-888-394-1972 toll free

Lafayette VA Out-Patient Clinic
309 St. Julien Avenue
Lafayette, LA 70506
337-706-3415
Fort Polk VA Out-Patient Clinic
3353 University Parkway
Leesville, LA 71446
337-392-3890
Natchitoches VA Out-Patient Clinic
740 Keyser Street
Natchitoches, LA 71457
337-357-3300

Lake Charles Out-Patient Clinic
3601 Gerstner Memorial Drive
Lake Charles, LA 70606
337-475-9500

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