About the Program

Chief: Marc Ofstein, MD
Business Manager: Dan Norko
Phone: 562-826-5484

SCOPE OF SERVICES 

Types and Ages of Patients Served:

The types of patients served by the Medical Health Care Group can be classified into the following groups:

1. The pre Vietnam era veterans.
   This group tends to have extensive and long term health care needs.
2. The Vietnam veterans.
   This group tends to have problems related to substance abuse, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, and other mental health issues.
3. Post Vietnam era veterans including Gulf War veterans.
   This group has a higher number of women veterans.The health care needs of this group continues to evolve.
   The patients served by this Health Care Group fall into two primary age groups: Adults and geriatric.The patient population consists of 95-98% male patients.

Patient Care

The primary care and subspecialty clinics provide ambulatory care to over 35,000 eligible veterans per year. The Emergency Room is equipped and staffed to maintain a level II ER.The Health Care Group has 64 operating beds including 16 critical care beds, 24 general medical beds in progressive in the Progressive Care Unit, and 24 medical beds in ward South 6

Emergency Room, Inpatient And Combined Critical Care: 

1. ER
2. CCU
3. PCU
4. 6-South

1. Primary Care Clinics:

2. Alpha
3. Bravo
4. Charlie
5. Delta
6. Foxtrot

1. CBOCS:
2. Santa Ana
3. Anaheim
4. Whittier/SantaFe Springs

1. Ambulatory Subspecialty Clinics:
2. Allergy
3. Cardiology
4. Dermatology
5. Endo/Diabetes
6. GI
7. Hematology/ Oncology
8. Infectious Disease
9. Nephrology
10. Pulmonary Diseases
11. Rheumatology
12. Women's Health Care Clinic

1. Allergy
2. Cardiology
3. Dermatology
4. Diabetes/Endocrine
5. GI
6. Heme/Onc
7. Infectious Diseases
8. Nephrology
9. Neurology
10. Pulmonary
11. Rheumatology