General Info

Atlanta VA Medical Center is located in Decatur, Ga., with an operating nursing home care unit. It also operates the Lawrenceville, the Oakwood, the Smyrna and the East Point community-based outpatient clinics. The Atlanta VA Medical Center is a tertiary care center that provides outpatient health care, extended care, and acute medical, surgical, intermediate and psychiatric care services. The center also serves as a prosthetics treatment center that supplies mechanical devices, such as artificial limbs for patients within the states of Georgia, South Carolina and Alabama. Atlanta VA Medical Center is a part of the United States Department of Veterans Affairs that offers various health programs on cancer, diabetes, HIV, recreation therapy, women s health, blind rehabilitation, hepatitis C and kidney diseases.