GCVHCS participates in Fourth Mission COVID response

Two VA medical centers in Mississippi, including the one in Biloxi, will be helping out other medical facilities in the state due to the shortage of ICU beds during the current COVID-19 wave.

The G.V Sonny Montgomery VA Medical Center and Gulf Coast Veterans Health Care System will accept general public intensive care, acute medical and surgical community patients as part of COVID-19 Fourth Mission pandemic response efforts.

This support was approved after the VA determined care to veterans would not be negatively impacted.

The Department of Veterans Affairs will continue to accept mission assignments from FEMA to open beds for non-veteran patients after a determination is made that care to veterans will not be disrupted.