The James J. Peters VA Medical Center, (also known as the Bronx Veterans Hospital), is a US Department of Veterans Affairs hospital complex located at 130 West Kingsbridge Road in West Fordham, Bronx, New York City.

During the American Revolutionary War, the site of the medical center was the location of British '"Fort Number 6" (1777–1779).

[1][5] The site then became the property of the Sisters of Charity of New York who turned it into the Bronx Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum.

[22] Beginning in the 1950s Rosalyn Sussman Yalow and Solomon Berson conducted research into radioimmunoassay.

[26][27] The research building contains the Spinal Cord Damage Research Center, established due to the efforts of the Eastern Paralyzed Veterans Association (now United Spinal Association) and its director James J.