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ABOUT VA IRON MOUNTAIN HEALTHCARE SYSTEM  The VA Iron Mountain Healthcare System provides you with outstanding health care, trains America’s future health care providers, and conducts

important medical research. HEALTH CARE AND SERVICES We provide you with health care services at 9 locations in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula and northeastern Wisconsin. Facilities include our

Oscar G. Johnson VA Medical Center in Iron Mountain and 8 community-based outpatient clinics in Gladstone, Hancock, Ironwood, Manistique, Marquette, Menominee, and Sault Saint Marie,

Michigan, and Rhinelander, Wisconsin. To learn more about the services each location offers, visit the VA Iron Mountain health services page. The VA Iron Mountain Healthcare System is one of

the leading health care systems serving Veterans in the VA Great Lakes Network. We’re an innovative care center within the Veterans Integrated Service Network 12 (VISN 12). VISN 12 includes

medical centers and clinics in Wisconsin, Illinois, northwestern Indiana, and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Learn more about VISN 12 RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT At the VA Iron Mountain

Healthcare System, we conduct research to discover knowledge, develop VA scientists and health care leaders, and create innovations that advance health care for Veterans and the nation. We

offer Veterans the opportunity to participate in and benefit from our work. Our goal is to use research to promote better health and health care for all. TEACHING AND LEARNING Oscar G.

Johnson VA Medical Center is a teaching hospital that works with multiple academic facilities to clinically train in the various professions including associate health, nursing as well as

graduate medical education. On an annual basis we provide approximately 45 trainees valuable experience in the VA system. We’re proud of our partnerships with top institutions and

organizations that support the educational mission of the VA. FAST FACTS * VA Iron Mountain Healthcare System has the largest geographic patient service area east of the Mississippi River;

we serve the health care needs of Veterans in 15 Michigan counties and 9 counties in northeastern Wisconsin. * Every year, we serve more than 20,000 of the 57,000 Veterans who live in our

service area. * Our Oscar G. Johnson VA Medical Center has 17 acute care and general medicine beds, and a 40-bed community living center that provides rehabilitation and extended care. * We

have an urgent care center; we also collaborate with larger VA medical centers in Milwaukee and Madison, Wisconsin, as well as local community health facilities, to provide higher-level

emergency services and specialty care.  * VA Iron Mountain Healthcare System is a leader in rural health care delivery, using state-of-the-art telehealth audio visual technology to bring

primary and specialty health services closer to Veterans who live in rural or remote areas. ACCREDITATIONS AND ACHIEVEMENTS Our facilities and programs have received accreditation from the:

* Joint Commission * College of American Pathologists * American Psychological Association The VA Iron Mountain Healthcare System has received the following awards: * 2008 Root Cause

Analysis Award * 2008 Environmental Excellence "Partner Recognition" Award * 2009 Making Medicine “Mercury Free” and “Partner for Change” Awards ANNUAL REPORTS AND NEWSLETTERS