Veterans Administration
The National Home and the Veterans Bureau, were combined into the United States Veterans Administration by President Hoover in 1930. Planning began for a major building campaign, including Mission/Spanish Colonial style hospital buildings and a group of Romanesque-inspired research buildings. The present Wadsworth hospital was constructed in the late 1930s. A new theater replaced the former Ward Theater in 1940. Most of the 1890s era buildings were demolished in the 1960s. The Veterans Affairs (VA) hospital building (VA Wadsworth Medical Center) was opened in 1977.
The VA Greater Los Angeles Health Care System is a tertiary care facility that provides a broad range of health care services to veterans. The largest of the VA's health care campuses, it is a part of the VA Desert Pacific Network.
Read more about this topic: Sawtelle Veterans Home, Pacific Branch
Other articles related to "veterans, veterans administration":
... reports about the disparate treatment of blue-ticket veterans, the House Committee on Military Affairs appointed a special committee to review the Veterans Administration's procedures ... In examining case histories of blue-discharge veterans, the committee found that "the procedure lends itself to dismissals based on prejudice and antagonism" ... nature of the blue discharge than this policy of the Veterans Administration" ...
... The hospital was turned over to the Veterans Administration in 1974 and more recently evolved into the Veterans Administration St ... Albans very near to the Veterans Administration facility ...
... the youngest of the remaining Civil War veterans would have been 69 years old and the oldest 99, in 1916 ... for the older members increased and fewer younger veterans entered the Home, membership would decline ... most importantly, made the provision that all veterans were entitled to medical, surgical and hospital care ...
Famous quotes containing the word veterans:
“My gentleman gives the law where he is; he will outpray saints in chapel, outgeneral veterans in the field, and outshine all courtesy in the hall. He is good company for pirates, and good with academicians; so that it is useless to fortify yourself against him; he has the private entrance to all minds, and I could as easily exclude myself, as him.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)