Amarillo VA Medical Center
Amarillo VA Medical Center
A current, unrestricted license from any US state allows you to practice in any VA facility, anywhere.
Practice evidence-based medicine in a high-tech environment without the hassles of running a practice, high malpractice premiums and associated overhead costs.
The VA offers an attractive comprehensive compensation package that includes professional development and work/life balance.
With 10 Federal Holidays, 26 work days of annual leave and robust federal benefits.
Relocation incentives MAY be authorized for highly qualified candidates.
Practice evidence-based medicine in a high-tech environment without the hassles of running a practice, high malpractice premiums and associated overhead costs.
The VA offers an attractive comprehensive compensation package that includes professional development and work/life balance.
With 10 Federal Holidays, 26 work days of annual leave and robust federal benefits.
Relocation incentives MAY be authorized for highly qualified candidates.
Amarillo, Texas, United States
Amarillo, Texas, United States
Company Information
The Amarillo VA Health Care System, a division of the Southwest VA Health Care Network (VISN 18), provides primary specialty, and extended care of the highest quality to veterans throughout the Texas and Oklahoma panhandles, eastern New Mexico, and southern Kansas. Approximately 25,000 patients are treated annually. The health care system maintains 55 acute care inpatient beds for general medical, surgical, and intensive care. Geriatric and extended care is provided in the 120-bed skilled nursing home care unit. A modern ambulatory care center and medical arts building facilitates the delivery of primary care, specialty care and preventive health services. The Amarillo VA Health Care System also ensures health care is accessible to those veterans residing in rural areas through three community-based outpatient clinics located in Lubbock, TX, Clovis, NM, and Childress, TX.
Company History
Established 1940
The Veterans Administration Hospital was constructed in 1939 and dedicated May 12, 1940. The buildings are of early Spanish architecture with the first buildings listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Recent construction has conformed to this style.
The VA Hospital site was on 360 acres of farm and ranchland and was self sufficient. Cattle were raised and gardens maintained to feed veteran patients. Most of the land was returned to the General Services Administration and subsequently Potter County. In 1960, Potter County conveyed the land to what is now known as the Don and Sybil Harrington Regional Medical Center. This area includes Northwest Texas Health Care System, Baptist St. Anthony's Health Care System, Harrington Cancer Center, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center and other health related organizations.
The name of the Amarillo VA Medical Center was officially changed to the Thomas E. Creek Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center on November 30, 2004. It is now located on approximately 43 acres and continues to provide general medical and surgical inpatient care and primary/specialty care. It is a part of what is now the Amarillo VA Health Care System which, with the addition of Community Based Outpatient Clinics located in Lubbock, Texas; Clovis, New Mexico; Childress, Texas; and Dalhart, Texas provides care to veterans throughout the Texas and Oklahoma Panhandles, eastern New Mexico and southern Kansas.
Initially 152,000 square feet, the Thomas E. Creek VA Medical Center has grown to 360,000 square feet with the construction of a clinical addition in 1987, followed by a 120-bed nursing home care unit in 1990, and the Medical Arts Building in 1996. An eight-room Hospitality House for veterans and/or family members was built in 1997 through combined efforts of the Health Care System and volunteers. In the 2010s, the Amarillo VA embarked an ambitious project to increase the entire size and scope of the medical complex to better serve the growing number of returning Veterans with the newest technologies. In 2012, a 21,000 square foot, two-story building dedicated to mental health, the Center for Therapy and Recovery, was opened. The following year, another two-story, high tech building was opened for Specialty Clinics to offer a Veteran-Centered, healing environment.
The Veterans Administration Hospital was constructed in 1939 and dedicated May 12, 1940. The buildings are of early Spanish architecture with the first buildings listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Recent construction has conformed to this style.
The VA Hospital site was on 360 acres of farm and ranchland and was self sufficient. Cattle were raised and gardens maintained to feed veteran patients. Most of the land was returned to the General Services Administration and subsequently Potter County. In 1960, Potter County conveyed the land to what is now known as the Don and Sybil Harrington Regional Medical Center. This area includes Northwest Texas Health Care System, Baptist St. Anthony's Health Care System, Harrington Cancer Center, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center and other health related organizations.
The name of the Amarillo VA Medical Center was officially changed to the Thomas E. Creek Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center on November 30, 2004. It is now located on approximately 43 acres and continues to provide general medical and surgical inpatient care and primary/specialty care. It is a part of what is now the Amarillo VA Health Care System which, with the addition of Community Based Outpatient Clinics located in Lubbock, Texas; Clovis, New Mexico; Childress, Texas; and Dalhart, Texas provides care to veterans throughout the Texas and Oklahoma Panhandles, eastern New Mexico and southern Kansas.
Initially 152,000 square feet, the Thomas E. Creek VA Medical Center has grown to 360,000 square feet with the construction of a clinical addition in 1987, followed by a 120-bed nursing home care unit in 1990, and the Medical Arts Building in 1996. An eight-room Hospitality House for veterans and/or family members was built in 1997 through combined efforts of the Health Care System and volunteers. In the 2010s, the Amarillo VA embarked an ambitious project to increase the entire size and scope of the medical complex to better serve the growing number of returning Veterans with the newest technologies. In 2012, a 21,000 square foot, two-story building dedicated to mental health, the Center for Therapy and Recovery, was opened. The following year, another two-story, high tech building was opened for Specialty Clinics to offer a Veteran-Centered, healing environment.
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