The Amarillo Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, built in 1938, was the first occupant of the Medical Center campus.
The Amarillo VA Health Care System provides primary specialty and extended care of the highest quality to veterans throughout the Texas and Oklahoma panhandles, eastern New Mexico, and southern Kansas. Approximately 25,000 patients are treated annually. The health care system maintains 69 acute care inpatient beds for general medical, surgical, and intensive care. Geriatric and extended care is provided in the 120-bed skilled nursing home care unit. A modern ambulatory care center and medical arts building facilitates the delivery of primary care, specialty care and preventive health services. The Amarillo VA Health Care System also ensures health care is accessible to those veterans residing in the rural areas through six community-based outpatient clinics located in Childress, Lubbock, and Stratford, TX, Clovis and Clayton, NM, and Liberal, KS. Affiliations with Texas Tech Universty Health Sciences Center, West Texas A&M University, Amarillo College, Baylor University, and Langston University enable a wide variety of advanced educational opportunities in medicine and allied health programs. The Amarillo VA Health Care System engages in basic scientific research and maintains research laboratories at the affiliated medical school, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center.