Teaching Facilities |
Stoney Building The Stoney Building houses the administrative offices of the Department, serves as a major teaching site, and also houses the outpatient facilities of the Department. Medical College of Georgia Healthcare, Inc.
A major component of MCG HealthCare is the Medical College of Georgia Hospitals and Clinics, operated by MCG Health, Inc. A tertiary referral center for Georgia and the region, the Medical College of Georgia offers a full spectrum of medical and health services in a family- and patient-centered environment. As the teaching hospital of the Medical College of Georgia, MCG Hospitals and Clinics include a 520-bed hospital, an Ambulatory Care Center with over 80 outpatient clinics, Specialized Care Center housing a 13-county regional trauma center, Comprehensive Cancer Program, Emergency and Express Care Services and the 149-bed, award-winning Children's Medical Center with one of five Neonatal Intensive Care Units in the state. Other components of MCG HealthCare include a variety of dedicated centers such as Sports Medicine, Senior Health, Joint Replacement, Comprehensive Diabetes Care and Neuroscience. Acute psychiatric services include a 21 bed adult psychiatric unit, a newly-established 9 bed geriatric psychiatry unit, and a 14 bed inpatient facility for children and adolescents. Residents rotating through these services will experience diverse training involving a wide variety of patients, mental illnesses, and treatment modalities (supportive/group/family therapies, psychopharmacology, ECT, etc.) As the dominant provider of psychiatric services in the region, an excellent clinical base is available for training purposes. MCG Hospitals and Clinics are accredited by the Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Health Care Organizations, the national body that establishes and enforces standards of quality for health care institutions. It is a member of the Council of Teaching Hospitals of the American Association of Medical Colleges, the National Association of Children's Hospitals and Related Institutions and the University Hospitals Consortium, a nationwide association of hospitals serving medical universities. Admissions totaled 15,737 during the fiscal year 2000 with outpatient visits reaching 473,033. There are 411 active members of the MCG Hospitals and Clinics medical staff and 235 active members of the Children's Medical Center medical staff, supported by 385 house staff members. Department of Veterans Affairs (Uptown Division) The Augusta VAMC is a two- division medical center which provides tertiary care in medicine, surgery, neurology, psychiatry, rehabilitation medicine, and spinal cord injury. The Downtown Division adjacent to the Medical College of Georgia has 155 beds (52 medicine, 37 surgery, six neurology, and 60 spinal cord injury). The Uptown Division, approximately three miles from MCG on Wrightsboro Road, has 165 beds (68 psychiatry, 72 The Augusta VAMC prides itself on continually improving and expanding its health care knowledge. The VAMC fully supports, as part of its mission, graduate medical education. The use of the Augusta VAMC as a training site for Medical College of Georgia residents has a long history, and the affiliation between the Augusta VAMC and MCG may be one of the older ones in the entire VA system. The Augusta VAMC's participation in this affiliation not only helps fulfill an education mission but also contributes to a high level of care provided to veteran patients. Medical residents are involved in nearly every aspect and phase of the care of medical and dental patients offered at the Augusta VAMC. Augusta State Medical Prison |
The Medical College of Georgia is the officially designated Health Sciences University for the State of Georgia. Founded in 1828, it is the oldest continuously operating medical school in the South. MCG HealthCare is the health system of the Medical College of Georgia, offering the highest level of primary and specialty care in the region. 
intermediate medicine, 15 blind rehabilitation, and 10 rehabilitation medicine.). In addition, a 60-bed Nursing Home Care Unit and a 60-bed Domiciliary are located at the Uptown Division. The Augusta VAMC serves as a network resource for the treatment of psychiatric patients. Specialized programs are offered in alcohol/drug dependence, post-traumatic stress disorder, geropsychiatry, and acute and long-term care of the chronically mentally ill.