Agency Details:

VA Medical Center - Fargo

Honor America's veterans by providing exceptional health care that improves their health and well-being.

Description:
The Fargo VA Medical Center is a general medical, surgical, and psychiatry facility with a total of 59 operating beds plus 50 restorative care unit beds. The Medical center provides high quality service to veterans residing in North Dakota, northwestern Minnesota and northeastern South Dakota. The Fargo VA Medical Center also operates four community based outpatient clinics in Minot, Grafton, and Bismarck, North Dakota, and Fergus Falls, Minnesota, with more clinics opening in the future.

History:
In February 1925, Fargo was recommended as the site of a new VA hospital. Formal approval came in December 1925, when the Federal Board of Hospitalization adopted a resolution recommending the expenditure of $200,000.00 for construction. Congressional approval followed and a 50-acre site was purchased from Martin Hector in August 1926. Ground was broken for a 57 bed infirmary on July 2, 1928, and construction was completed by the following February. The first patient was admitted June 10, 1929.

Contact people:

Jack Barrows, Vol. Svc. Program Mgr., (phone), (email) Elizabeth Laney, Assistant, (phone)

Office fax number: 701-237-2491

Address:

2101 Elm Street Fargo, ND 58102 (See a map)

Web Site: None specified

Directions:

From Interstate 29, take 19th Avenue North exit. Head East on 19th Avenue which will run right into the Fargo VA Medical Center.   Nearest Bus Stop: Elm street and 21st Ave N., 2 minute walk

Last updated on June 17, 2009