Oscar G. Johnson VA Medical Center
The Oscar G. Johnson VA Medical Center (OGJVAMC) is located at 325 East H Street in Iron Mountain, MI, in Michigan's rural Upper Peninsula. The facility oversees eight Community Based Outpatient Clinics (CBOCs) located in Ironwood, Hancock, Marquette, Gladstone, Sault Ste. Marie, Manistique and Menominee, MI, and Rhinelander, WI.
OGJVAMC and its CBOCs annually serve approximately 21,000 Veterans. OGJVAMC has large geographic patient area, encompassing fifteen Michigan counties and nine counties in northeastern Wisconsin.
OGJVAMC is a primary and secondary level care facility with 17 acute care, general medicine beds. The main facility has a Monday through Friday, to include holidays Urgent Care Center and a Surgical Department with Basic Ambulatory Surgery designation. For higher level emergency and critical care cases, OGJVAMC coordinates that care with hospitals in both the local community and at larger VA medical centers that have the capability and expertise to serve our Veterans. The services provided by OGJVAMC’s 40-bed Community Living Center (CLC) include extended care and short-term rehabilitation, geriatric care, general nursing home care; short term wound care, and hospice/palliative care.
OGJVAMC provides ambulatory and acute health care including audiology, diabetes, dentistry, geriatrics and extended care, general medicine, whole health (chiropractic, massage therapy, acupuncture, wellness, yoga, tai chi, health coaching, aromatherapy, biofeedback) home-based primary care, mental health, oncology, optometry, orthopedics, Hepatitis C, palliative/hospice, physical and occupational therapy, prosthetics, podiatry, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), psychiatry, radiology, speech, spinal cord injury (SCI), substance abuse, surgery, cardiology, neurology, urology, weight management, cardiac rehabilitation, and women’s wellness.
Community-Based Outpatient Clinics
In addition to our main facility in Iron Mountain, Michigan, we offer services in eight community-based Outpatient Clinics. These clinics are located in —