An opportunity to build a health care network for today’s veterans — and tomorrow’s

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An opportunity to build a health care network for today’s veterans — and tomorrow’s
By Anthony J. Principi
Apr 4, 09:24 PM
The Department of Veterans Affairs building is seen in Washington on July 22, 2019.
The Department of Veterans Affairs building is seen in Washington on July 22, 2019. (Alastair Pike/AFP via Getty Images)

The Department of Veterans Affairs has just completed a major step in the congressionally-mandated Asset and Infrastructure Review, or AIR, process — a process designed to ensure VA’s infrastructure in the next few years reflects the needs of 21st century veterans, not those of the previous century.

On March 14, VA recommended 35 of its 171 hospitals be closed or completely rebuilt; 14 new hospitals constructed; and 140 community-based outpatients opened. Altogether, it will cost approximately $2 trillion to modernize the department’s facilities under this proposal.

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