Overton Brooks VA Medical Center (OBVAMC) consists of one VHA tertiary care facility and three community-based outpatient clinics serving Veterans in 15 Louisiana parishes, five counties in Southern Arkansas and 10 counties in East Texas. The medical center is classified as a Clinical Referral Level 1C Facility which accepts referrals from the Southeast Louisiana Veterans Healthcare System located in New Orleans, Louisiana and the Alexandria VA Health Care System located in Pineville, Louisiana. OBVAMC is a teaching hospital, providing a complete range of patient care services, with state-of-the-art technology, as well as education and research. Comprehensive health care is provided through primary and specialty care in the areas of medicine, surgery, mental health, physical medicine and rehabilitation, dentistry, radiation oncology, pathology, audiology and imaging. OBVAMC is part of the South Central VA Health Care Network (VISN 16) which is one of 21 Veterans Service Networks (VISNs) of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). VISN 16 covers a vast area of 170,000 square miles, serving Veterans in the states of Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and parts of Texas, Missouri, Alabama and Florida.