Santa Clara Valley Medical Center | |
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Santa Clara County Health System | |
Geography | |
Location | 751 South Bascom Avenue, San Jose, California, United States |
Organization | |
Care system | Public |
Type | Teaching |
Affiliated university | Stanford University School of Medicine |
Services | |
Emergency department | Level I trauma center |
Beds | 731 |
Public transit access | VTA Bus: 25, 61, SCVMC Shuttle |
History | |
Opened | 1876 |
Links | |
Website | scvmc |
Lists | Hospitals in the United States |
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.[1]