West Roxbury VA Medical Center
The West Roxbury VA Medical Center operates on Spring Street in the West Roxbury section of Boston, Massachusetts, as part of the VA Boston Healthcare System. That system divides its work across three campuses, and West Roxbury carries the acute inpatient and surgical load while the Jamaica Plain and Brockton campuses handle other functions, including ambulatory care and mental health. Affiliations with Harvard Medical School and Boston University make the facility a teaching site for residents and fellows, and it supports active research alongside clinical care.
Services include inpatient medical and surgical care, intensive care, and surgery, with notable specialty depth in cardiac surgery and cardiology, along with a spinal cord injury center providing specialized rehabilitation and long-term care for veterans with paralysis. Outpatient specialty clinics, rehabilitation, and extended care round out the campus. Nurses practice across critical care, cardiac surgical units, spinal cord injury, medical-surgical, perioperative, and outpatient settings, with acuity comparable to an academic hospital rather than a community facility. The spinal cord injury program in particular calls for specialized skills in rehabilitation, respiratory care, and long-term relationship-based nursing. Employment falls under federal terms rather than Boston's private hospital market.
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