Santa Clara Valley Medical Center , commonly known as Valley Medical Center or simply Valley Medical , is a prominent 731-bed public tertiary , teaching , and research hospital in San Jose, California . Located in the Fruitdale neighborhood of West San Jose , Valley Medical Center is the anchor facility of the Santa Clara County Health System , serving Santa Clara County . Valley Medical is home to numerous innovative research and care centers, such as the Rehabilitation Trauma Center , the only federally-designated spinal cord injury center in Northern California .
13-860: Valley Medical Center may refer to the following hospitals: Santa Clara Valley Medical Center in San Jose, California Valley Hospital Medical Center in Las Vegas, Nevada Willamette Valley Medical Center in McMinnville, Oregon Valley Medical Center Heliport See also [ edit ] Valley Hospital (disambiguation) Medical centers named after valleys: Arkansas Valley Regional Medical Center Cagayan Valley Medical Center Chino Valley Medical Center Lehigh Valley Hospital–Cedar Crest Lompoc Valley Medical Center Ohio Valley Medical Center Pascack Valley Medical Center Queen of
26-485: Is currently a ten-bed unit based in the Sobrato Pavilion's Respiratory Rehabilitation Unit (opened in 2017) under the direction of Dr. Stephen L. McKenna. The center is known for ventilator weaning after catastrophic neurological injury. The center is notable for clinical research in cellular therapies for neurological disease. In the first US clinical trial of hESC based therapies for spinal cord injury, 40% of
39-1093: Is licensed for cardiovascular surgery and cardiac catheterization. It is designated a primary stroke treatment center by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health Organizations. In addition, the Medical Center operates onsite outpatient clinics and satellite clinics in Central San Jose, East San Jose , South San Jose , as well as the suburbs of Sunnyvale , Gilroy , and Milpitas . Residency programs operated by Santa Clara Valley Medical Center include internal medicine , obstetrics/gynecology , radiology , and pharmacy. Residents in anesthesiology , dermatology , emergency medicine , general surgery , neurology , ophthalmology , orthopedic surgery , pediatrics , physical medicine & rehabilitation , plastic surgery , radiation oncology , and urology from Stanford Medical School all rotate through Santa Clara Valley Medical Center. Residents in infectious diseases from
52-756: Is one of five 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, Highland Hospital (Alameda County) in Oakland, and UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento. It also is one of four pediatric level I trauma centers in Northern California. It operates the only federally designated spinal cord injury center in Northern California,
65-632: The Kaiser Permanente Medical Program rotate through Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, as do members of the occupational medicine program from UC San Francisco . The HealthGrades website contains the clinical quality data for Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, as of 2018. For this rating section clinical quality rating data, patient safety ratings and patient experience ratings are presented. For inpatient conditions and procedures, there are three possible ratings: worse than expected, as expected, better than expected. For this hospital
78-573: 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. Santa Clara Valley Medical Center operates numerous critical care units including the highest level neonatal intensive care unit. The medical center also
91-551: The Santa Clara Valley Medical Center (SCVMC) was founded in 1972 and is part of the only federally designated spinal cord injury center in Northern California. The center is one of the oldest spinal cord injury neurointensive care units in the United States and participated in the original National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research Database collecting retrospective data to 1973. The center
104-514: The 10 million cells cohort showed a doubling of the expected rate of recovery from traumatic spinal cord injury. The center is a clinical program site in the Stanford Partnership for Spinal Cord Injury and Repair. The center is a core facility for Stanford residents and fellows in training. Stanford Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation residents learn the acute care of patients with catastrophic neurological injuries through consultation in
117-636: 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
130-614: The Valley Medical Center San Luis Valley Regional Medical Center Star Valley Medical Center UCHealth Yampa Valley Medical Center Utah Valley Hospital [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about hospitals or medical centers which are associated with the same title. If an internal link referred you to this page, you may wish to change
143-467: The data for this category is: For patient safety ratings the same three possible ratings are used. For this hospital they are" Percentage of patients rating this hospital as a 9 or 10 - 62% Percentage of patients who on average rank hospitals as a 9 or 10 - 69% 37°18′48″N 121°56′2″W / 37.31333°N 121.93389°W / 37.31333; -121.93389 Rehabilitation Trauma Center The Rehabilitation Trauma Center (RTC) at
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#1732880490460156-543: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Valley_Medical_Center&oldid=1104004657 " Category : Hospital disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Santa Clara Valley Medical Center The campus and hospital were founded at its present location in 1876 by Dr. Benjamin Cory,
169-547: The patients in the trial were enrolled through the Rehabilitation Trauma Center at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center. In the subsequent dose escalation trial, the Center treated the first patient in the nation with complete (AIS-A) cervical spinal cord injury at the highest dose of 20 million cells of AST-OPC1 (oligodendrocyte progenitor cells); as well as, the first incomplete spinal cord injury (AIS-B). The results of
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