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1190 Interstate Parkway
Augusta, GA 30909
Eisenhower Army Medical Center, home to 1st Certified Traumatic Brain Injury Program within Department of Defense, and a major destination for air evacuees from Iraq and Afghanistan.
The nation’s only Active Duty Rehabilitation Unit located within a VA facility (a unique example of Department of Defense and Veterans Affairs collaboration) where more than 720 active duty personnel have been treated to date.
The nation’s largest VA Spinal Cord Injury Unit, and one of 10 VA Blind Rehab Centers.
9 Hospitals centrally located for combined service efforts.
The nation’s lowest cost housing market for relocating families.
A 7-bedroom Fisher House providing a home away from home for families (with 95% occupancy). A second Fisher House, a 20-suite home on the campus of the VA Medical Center where the Active Duty Rehabilitation Unit is located, broke ground on December 9th, 2009.
Current goals go beyond impeccable medical care, and are to inform government agencies, service members and their families of Augusta’s unique capabilities that have capacity to serve more of America’s wounded warriors.
A Transition Round Table with collaborative efforts to gain employment and training for wounded warriors, a Research Consortium, and marriage enrichment workshops for returned service members, veterans and their families.
Augusta has the #1 affordable housing market in the nation. (www.bizjournal.com) Read the article Here
Augusta is home to the nation's only Active Duty Rehabilitation Unit located within a VA facility (The Charlie Norwood VA Medical Center).
GA, SC, FL, AL, MS, NC, TN and KY make up nearly 30% of all active duty personnel
Augusta's Eisenhower Army Medical Center is the number two recipient of medical evacuees from Iraq and Afghanistan, second only to Walter Reed in Washington (source: PCCWW report, July 2007, page 23). Eisenhower AMC consistently ranks in the top three military treatment facilities as a recipient of medical evacuees from the Global War on Terror.
Augusta's Eisenhower Army Medical Center located on Fort Gordon is also home to the Army's Southeast Regional Medical Command.
Augusta's Medical College of Georgia has residents who do rounds at Eisenhower Army Medical Center and the The Charlie Norwood VA Medical Center.