Located just 30 minutes from San Francisco in the East Bay city of Martinez is the VA Northern California Health Care System's Center for Rehabilitation & Extended Care (CREC), Outpatient Clinic, main offices of the East Bay Institute for Research and Education (EBIRE) as well as approximately 2,800 sq. ft. of wet lab space, 5,500 sq. ft. of dry lab space, and 4,500 sq. ft. of office space dedicated to research.

Center for Rehabilitation & Extended Care (CREC)

The CREC is a 120-bed facility which offers several extended care services including Rehabilitation, Restorative Care, Respite Program, Hospice/Palliative Care, Transitional Care, and a Neuro-Cognitive Unit.

The Center also provides a 23-hour bed program in support of post-procedural ambulatory care services, a 2-bed medical detox unit, and a clinical research unit.

Outpatient Clinic

The Clinic offers a full range of medical, surgical, psychiatric and diagnostic outpatient services, including nuclear medicine, ultrasound, CT & MRI, and a core reference laboratory. The Clinic also operates a freestanding Ambulatory Surgery Center, and provides additional services such as rehabilitation medicine, audiology and speech pathology, vascular laboratory, Women's Health Clinic, substance abuse treatment program, and an amputee clinic. The Day Treatment Center provides a structured and protected setting for patients with chronic mental illnesses. Residents from University of California-Davis and its affiliate, Contra Costa Regional Medical Center, receive training at the Clinic.

Serving patients along the I-50 and I-80 corridors is the newly constructed Sacramento Veterans Affairs Medical Center.

Sacramento VA Medical Center (VAMC)

The new facility, which opened in June 2003, includes an increased number of medical-surgical and ICU beds, additional monitored, or "step-down" beds and operating rooms, a new cardiac catherization lab and gastrointestinal/endoscopy suite, angiography capability and 16,000 square feet of research laboratory. The hospital also includes a nine-bed General Clinical Research Center, jointly operated by the VA and the University of California at Davis. The Sacramento VA Medical Center offers a full range of comprehensive primary, medical, surgical and subspeciality services to veterans in northern California, as well as wide range of diagnostic services, including mammography, MRI, CT and PET scanning. The medical center has experienced dramatic growth, with the number of patients treated having grown from 14,878 in FY 2000 to over 26,000 in FY2003.

Clinical Trials Research Center (CTRC)

Adjacent to the Sacramento VA Medical Center, the CTRC celebrated its grand opening in February 2000.

The Center provides research investigators with exam rooms, wet lab space, conference room, refrigerator/freezer room, core space for investigators, core space for research coordinators, reception area, and administrative space for EBIRE-VANCHCS research staff.