VA Palo Alto Health Care System

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Organization Description

VA Palo Alto health care is part of VA Sierra Pacific Network (VISN 21), which serves Veterans in northern and central California, Nevada, Hawaii, the Philippines, and U.S. territories in the Pacific Basin. VA Palo Alto consists of 3 inpatient facilities located at Palo Alto, Menlo Park, and Livermore, in addition to 7 community-based outpatient clinics in San Jose, Capitola, Monterey, Stockton, Modesto, Sonora, and Fremont. We also offer 2 residential homes for Veterans in the Compensated Work Therapy program. VA Palo Alto operates close to 800 beds, including 3 nursing homes and a 100-bed homeless domiciliary, all to serve more than 67,000 enrolled Veterans.

We operate one of the largest integrated health care systems in VA in terms of specialized programs, research and graduate medical education; primarily affiliated with Stanford University School of Medicine. Comprehensive health care is provided through primary, tertiary and long-term care in areas of medicine, surgery, psychiatry, physical medicine and rehabilitation, neurology, oncology, dentistry, geriatrics and extended care.

We are home to a variety of regional treatment centers, including spinal cord injury, polytrauma rehabilitation, blind rehabilitation, homeless Veterans rehabilitation programs; and men’s and women’s trauma recovery programs.

Our research program is the second largest in VHA with an annual funding of approximately $58 million. National VHA research centers at VA Palo Alto include: Cooperative Studies Program; Health Services Research and Development, Center for Innovation to Implementation, Health Economics Resource Center; Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center; Mental Illness Research Education Clinical Center; National Center for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD); VHA Performance Evaluation Resource Center; VHA National Center for Collaborative Health Care Innovation; Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center; VHA Office of Public Health and Environmental Hazards, War Related Illness and Injury Study Center, and Office of Public Health Surveillance and Research.

Program Information

VAPAHCS is a hospital system with various community based clinics and medical divisions with various specialties on site. Social Work interns are placed in various programs, ex: mental health outpatient, psychiatric inpatient, emergency medical dept, residential treatment facilities for substance abuse treatment and/ or trauma recovery, etc. Trainees will be provided opportunity to develop skilled assessment, evidence based interventions and special training on the services of United States Veterans across a lifespan and highly diverse psychosocial circumstances.

Health & Safety

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Additional requirements and/or considerations
  • Background Check (e.g. fingerprinting/livescan, driving record)
  • Computer Literacy
  • Health Check/Screening (e.g. temperature screening, COVID-19 test)
  • Must be 18 or older
  • Pre-Placement Training
  • TB Test
  • Vaccinations
  • Fingerprinting
Address 
3801 Miranda Ave.
Palo Alto, CA 94304
United States
General Phone 
(650) 493-5000
Website:
https://www.va.gov/palo-alto-health-care/
Program(s) 
MSW (Master of Social Work)
Organization type 
Human, Social, or Employment Services (Government)
Focus Population(s)
People Experiencing Illness
Focus Area(s)
Health & Medicine
Hours of operation 

Hospital System is operating 24 hours a day. Community based outpatient clinics generally are operating from 7:30 am - 4:30 pm Monday through Friday.

Maximum students 
10