List of Medical Centers by Resource Type, Association, or Common History

• National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers
• Architectural Set Medical Centers
• Architecturally Significant Medical Center Campuses
• Architecturally and/or Historically Important Buildings
• Archeologically Important Sites
• Historic VAMCs - Former Military Posts Historically Significant for that Association
• Other VAMCs Formerly Military Properties No Known Historic Significance for that Association
• Former Tuberculosis Hospitals
• Former Public Health Service Hospitals
• Post WWII - VA Designed 500 Bed Hospitals
• Hospitals Constructed by the Corps of Engineers February 1946 - May 1954
• Haun Type Hospitals in the late 1950's
• VAHBS - VA Hospital Building System Hospitals 1970-90's
• VA Major Replacement Hospitals 1970's - 1990's
• Earlier Replacement Hospitals
• VAMC's having Golf Courses
• Former VA Hospitals - No Longer Owned

National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers(11 Properties)

Eleven branches of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, established after the Civil War in 1866 by Congress to care for disabled veterans and those with no homes. The Home Branches were operated in a military-like fashion with "commandant" leaders, group dining in "mess" halls, parades, bands, and barracks living for all residents. They were fully contained communities that included libraries, chapels, theaters, and staff housing, often in unifying architectural styles. Most notable of these were Hot Spring’s Romanesque style and Mountain Home's Beaux Arts style. Victorian styles were popular at many of the other branch locations.

Architectural Set Medical Centers (50 Properties)

50 properties nationwide that serve as part of the VA's Architectural Set, a thematic, multiple property nomination to the National Register. They share a common prototype floor plan, campus siting/landscaping, and overall health care design strategy; the exterior facades differ regionally by architectural style.

Architecturally Significant Medical Center Campuses:

Architecturally and/or Historically Important Buildings:

Archeologically Important Sites: <

Historic VAMCs - Former Military Posts: (Historically Significant for that Association)

Other VAMCs Formerly Military Properties: (No Known Historic Significance for that Association)

* Historically significant for other reasons

Former Tuberculosis Hospitals:

Former Public Health Service Hospitals:

Post WWII - VA Designed 500 Bed Hospitals:

To serve the many veterans needing care after World War II, the VA undertook a massive program of building in many places around the country another prototype hospital which we now call the "Bradley 500 Bed Hospital" in reference to then VA Administrator Omar Bradley and the approximate number of beds in the design.  The number of actual beds varied slightly to accommodate the site or other variables. Due to the need for getting these buildings in use quickly, they are austere and lack architectural embellishment. 

Hospitals Constructed by the Corps of Engineers: February 1946 - May 1954

In the early Fall of 1945, General Omar Bradley, VA Administrator, decided to request the Corps of Engineers (OCE or Corps) assistance in building hospitals needed for the VA post-World War II expansion which Congress had already approved and funded. The Corps began work for the Veterans Administration February, 1946, after receiving official approval to do so that month. After eight years of work, the Corps completed the program in May 1954. The Corps and its contractors constructed 44 complete hospitals in those years at a cost of $364,184,828. in A/E and construction expenses. OCE handled the design features while the field handled actual construction. All divisions of the Corps were involved. Within OCE, the Hospital Branch of Construction Operations Division authorized the funds and generally supervised the construction phase and the Projects Control Section of Engineering Division coordinated design, specifications and engineering phases to the actual point of the invitation to bid. Problems with lack of specialized personnel and the necessary decision authority soon led to establishment of the Hospital Design Branch in the Summer of 1947. But the number of Corps employees involved cannot be readily determined.

Haun Type Hospitals: (in the late 1950's)

These were designed by in-house VA staff and named after a Dr. Haun involved in their development as Neuropsychiatric, campus type facilities, 1000 beds:

VAHBS - VA Hospital Building System Hospitals: (1970-90's)

VA Hospital Building System, a modern design dividing large area multi-storied hospitals into service zones, integrating mechanical system modules within interstitial space between occupied floors with external mechanical equipment towers. Considered comprehensive, modern replacement facilities.

VA Major Replacement Hospitals 1970's - 1990's

(VAHBS) VA Hospital Building System, a modern design integrating mechanical system modules within interstitial space between occupied floors. Considered comprehensive, modern replacement facilities

* VAMC = Veterans Affairs Medical Center

** Replaced Loch Raven campus

*** Replaced Allen Park campus

****  Replaced San Fernando, destroyed in earthquake, 1973

Earlier Replacement Hospitals

***** Replaced Mount Alto campus

VAMC's having Golf Courses

Former VA Hospitals - No Longer Owned:

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