VA Virtual Museum

VA Medical Center, Albuquerque, NM

PM 1953
This striking Air View shows in the background, the huge U.S. Veterans Hospital with its large new edition. On the right foreground stands the modern Lovelace Clinic and in left foreground is the fine, well equipped Bataan Memorial Methodist Hospital. 1952
Of Distinctive Spanish-Pueblo design - this building assembly of the Veterans Administration Hospital presents a striking landmark. Occupying over 500 acres on the high mesa five miles east of downtown Albuquerque, New Mexico, it is almost a small village in itself. This hospital is a complete G.M.S. (General-Medical-Surgical) unit with a capacity for 295 patients and a personnel of 250.
Occupying 515 acres of land 5 miles east of Albuquerque, New Mexico, the new Hospital for Ex-soldiers of all wars the U.S. has been engaged in, was built at a cost of $1,250,000.00 and has the capacity of caring for 262 patients with provisions for an increase of twice that number. There are approximately 250 employees including executives, physicians, nurses, etc. PM 1933
1951