Are all VA Medical Centers Alike?
Each medical center, while being part of the largest health care delivery system in the free world, has its own character and specialty services. Some VA Medical Centers have geriatric units, substance abuse units, and day hospitals, while others focus on psychiatric treatment or provide domiciliary care. Prospective applicants should carefully examine the brochure of each VA to verify the available training opportunities. Our Medical Center provides a full range of medical and psychiatric services in affiliation with the University of Utah Medical School. Along with other specialty services, the VA SLC HCS is one of three designated organ transplantation centers in the VA system, is an official site for conducting research in mental illness (MIRRECC), and has developed many of the computer assisted psychological assessment packages now used throughout the VA. VA SLC HCS also serves a Level III Polytrauma Center, essential in our service to our most recent veterans from Iraq and Afghan
