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VA Central California Health Care System (VACCHCS), located in Fresno, California, is part of VA Sierra Pacific Network (VISN21), which includes facilities in California, Nevada, and Hawaii.

VACCHCS is a 63-bed acute care, general medical and surgical center with state-of-the-art primary, secondary and tertiary care in major diagnostic, and treatment specializations. In

addition, a 60-bed Community Living Center (CLC) is located on campus and provides skilled nursing and rehabilitation.

VACCHCS has 31,000 Veterans currently enrolled for health care eligibility and serves more than 28,000 Veterans in six counties in California’s San Joaquin Valley. The six counties include

Tulare, Kings, Fresno, Madera, Merced, and Mariposa. Three Community Based Outpatient Clinics (CBOCs) support the wide catchment area served by the health care system.

Registered Nurses (RN) are among the top Veterans Health Administration (VHA) Mission Critical Occupations identified as a priority for recruitment and retention initiatives. Both practice

and research demonstrate that newly graduated RNs benefit from additional experiential training to master their clinical skills.  Since 2011, the VA OAA implemented 35 Post-Baccalaureate

Registered Nurse Residency (PB-RNR) program within VHA.

The VA OAA Nurse Residency programs are designed: (1) to develop competent, confident, practice-ready RNs equipped with the knowledge and skills to address the specific needs of our nation's

Veterans in the VHA and community, and (2) to enhance recruitment and retention of VA nurses by providing a pipeline of highly qualified nursing workforce.

Our residency training consists of precepted clinical: rotation in the following areas:

We utilize multimodal approaches to facilitate learning that will assist the residents from a novice nurse to professionally competent nurse through:

Dr. Eileen Jimenez, RN 559-225-6100, ext. 5250 [email protected] PB-RNR/RNTTP Program Director​ VA Central California Health Care System