Santa Clara Valley Medical Center
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| Geography | |
| Location | 751 South Bascom Avenue, San Jose, California, United States |
| Organization | |
| Care system | Public Hospital |
| Hospital type | Teaching |
| Affiliated university | Stanford University |
| Services | |
| Emergency department | Level I trauma center |
| Beds | 574 Beds |
| History | |
| Founded | 1876 |
| Links | |
| Website | www |
| Lists | Hospitals in California |
Santa Clara Valley Medical Center is a 574-bed tertiary medical center, owned and operated by the County of Santa Clara. The Medical Center is part of the Santa Clara Valley Health and Hospital System. Locally it is also known as Valley Medical Center, Valley Medical, VMC, or simply 'Valley'. SCVMC is both a research hospital and teaching hospital. It is the county hospital and primary trauma center in Santa Clara County.
The medical center is located three miles west of downtown San Jose in an unincorporated "pocket" of Santa Clara County called Fruitdale, surrounded by the incorporated boundaries of the City of San Jose. The campus and hospital were founded at its present location in 1876 by Dr. Benjamin Cory, the Director of Public Health. Founded as the County Hospital, it was the first organized hospital in the San Francisco Bay Area. The current campus continues to sit at the very same spot where the original hospital was constructed in the 19th century. This has led to issues with construction on site with the February 2012 unearthing of an 1870-1920s pauper's grave site.
Santa Clara Valley Medical Center is one of four adult level one trauma centers in Northern California, along with Stanford University Medical Center in northwestern Santa Clara County, San Francisco General Hospital in San Francisco, and UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento. It also is one of three pediatric level one trauma centers in Northern California. It operates the only federally designated spinal cord injury center in Northern California, the Rehabilitation Trauma Center, along with the only traumatic brain injury center for the treatment and rehabilitation of patients. It operates one of four burn centers in Northern California. It is the only trauma center in California to co-locate all five of these services on one campus.
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