Located on a 29-acre site overlooking the ocean, Marin Headlands and the Golden Gate Bridge in its namesake city, San Francisco VA Medical Center is a 27-building medical center complex that occupies the former site of Fort Miley. Operated by the United States Department of Veteran Affairs (VA), this center shares all the values and standards that are applied nationwide.
Indeed, 25 million veterans are alive as of today, and out of those, 3 out of 4 served during a war or an official period of conflict. In addition to that, around 70 million people are potentially eligible for the benefits offered by the United States Department of Veteran Affairs, including the families of veterans. In the specific case of San Francisco VA Medical Center, we are talking about a major tertiary care referral center for veterans of the northern California area. It has 124 acute care hospital beds, with over a third of bed days of care being in intensive care or monitored beds.
San Francisco VA Medical Center is a state-of-the-art acute medical, neurological, surgical and psychiatric care. Among its many programs, we can name the cardiac and vascular surgery, interventional radiology, orthopedics, oral surgery, urology, dermatology, renal dialysis, alcohol/drug abuse, mental illness, otolaryngology, neurology and neurosurgery, not to mention the fact the medical center is one of the few centers in the world equipped for studies using whole-body magnetic resonance imaging (MR) and spectroscopy (MRS).
If you are currently looking for a job in nursing, then you have come to the right place, or at least to the right database! Indeed, you have access to 3 different search engines that can help you find what you are looking for: the USAJOBS database, the VHA Placement service or the VHA Executive Recruitment. This means, however, that there is no direct application at San Francisco VA Medical Center, so you will have to browse trough a large number of job openings. But one thing is certain: there are plenty of those in there!