Inside the $43 million Veterans Affairs simulation hospital where doctors are piloting new tech
Health-care workers are testing tech and simulating procedures in a $43 million VA facility called SimVET.
Inside a sprawling $43 million Veterans Affairs facility equipped with operating rooms, intensive care units and an outpatient clinic, there are no patients. At least not any real ones.
The 53,000-square-foot building sits minutes away from the Orlando International Airport in Florida, and it's called the National Center for Simulation Validation, Evaluation and Testing, or SimVET. It serves as the primary hub where teams of front-line health-care workers from the VA travel to practice procedures and pilot new technologies, all without posing unnecessary risks to patients.