The Oscar G. Johnson VA Medical Center is a Veterans Administration hospital, opened in 1950.

[1] As World War II came to a close, the need for veteran's healthcare increased in the western Upper Peninsula.

In 1946, the former Von Platen-Fox Lumber Company site was purchased as a location, and the Veterans Administration turned the project over to the United States Army Corps of Engineers to manage.

The Corps managed the construction through early 1950, transferring it back to the VA in February of that year.

In 2008, a new Rehabilitation and Extended Care Center/Community Living Center was constructed, and in 2011 the Outpatient Clinic was expanded.