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https://www.moaa.org/content/publications-and-media/news-articles/2022-news-articles/va-plan-would-close-3-major-medical-centers,-restructure-outpatient-clinics/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=TMNsend&utm_content=FL+ATFHSRM+2+Ret+B+NC
Veterans Affairs leaders will recommend closing three major medical centers and more than 170 other outpatient health facilities in coming years as part of an ongoing review of the department’s footprint across America, according to documents obtained by Military Times.
But VA officials will also push for construction of 255 new health care and community living facilities as part of the plan, a trade-off that they say will put almost 200,000 more veterans within a 30-minute drive of basic medical care and 370,000 more veterans within an hour’s drive of specialty care.
VA Secretary Denis McDonough is expected to detail the plan on March 10 during an event with the RAND Epstein Family Veterans Policy Research Institute.
Veterans Affairs leaders will recommend closing three major medical centers and more than 170 other outpatient health facilities in coming years as part of an ongoing review of the department’s footprint across America, according to documents obtained by Military Times.
But VA officials will also push for construction of 255 new health care and community living facilities as part of the plan, a trade-off that they say will put almost 200,000 more veterans within a 30-minute drive of basic medical care and 370,000 more veterans within an hour’s drive of specialty care.
VA Secretary Denis McDonough is expected to detail the plan on March 10 during an event with the RAND Epstein Family Veterans Policy Research Institute.
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Lt Col Charlie Brown Obviously I don't agree with the closing of medical centers but making health care closer to Veterans is a good thing. My medical center is less than a half hour from my home and less than a mile from my school which makes it real convenient to go there after the school day is over with. No additional travel from home!
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