HomePhone: 706-434-1708
Fax: 706-863-4933
1190 Interstate Parkway
Augusta, GA 30909
The Augusta community's campaign for the Fisher House for the Charlie Norwood VA Medical Center's Active Duty Rehab Unit is complete. Donations exceeded $1.8 million, and the VA broke ground on the 20 suite home on December 9th, 2009. You can still support Augusta's first Fisher House at Eisenhower Army Medical Center. To make a donation please contact the Fisher House directly at 706-787-7100.
Marriage Enrichment Workshops/Staying a Couple After Combat
To support marriage retreats for combat-returned veterans conducted in collaboration with the Charlie Norwood VA Medical Center chaplains program, you can make a contribution directly to support lodging and food for overnight retreats for at-risk couples. To do so, note in your letter the contribution is to support the Chaplains' Marriage Enrichment Workshops. Make your check out to The Charlie Norwood VA Medical Center and put GPF8007 in the memo line. Please mail it directly to Kim Hoge:
Kim Hoge, Chief of Voluntary Service
Charlie Norwood VAMC
1 Freedom Way (119U)
Augusta, GA 30904
The Red Cross office on Fort Gordon is located within Eisenhower and they will happily take donations to help service members recovering in the Warrior Transition Battalion (WTB)
That contact person is Ms. Claudette Johnson, and the address is:
American Red Cross
Building 300, Room 3-D-09
Eisenhower Army Medical Center
Fort Gordon, GA 30905
Phone number 706-787-6311
Email: Johnsoncl@usa.RedCross.org
To send a card to a recovering wounded warrior:
Commander, Warrior Transition Battalion
Attn: LTC Edwin Larkin
Building 327
226 Central Hospital Rd.
Fort Gordon, GA 30905
The Active Duty Rehabilitation Unit at the Uptown VA helps service members from all branches, many of them wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan.
You can donate your time or your resources by contacting:
Kimberly Hoge Volunteer Services Coordinator
706-731-7208
Kimberly.Hoge@va.gov
You can also send cards there:
Recovering Service Member
Attention: Kim Hoge, room 119U
Charlie Norwood VAMC
1 Freedom Way (119U)
Augusta, GA 30904-6285
To volunteer at Fort Gordon:
Army Volunteer Corps (AVC): 706-791-3880
To donate to Morale, Welfare and Recreation (MWR) on Fort Gordon (which you can have designated to help those recovering), 706-791-6779.
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.