Outpatient clinic for vets opens
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Sentinel Staff - Published: June 5, 2010
BRATTLEBORO — A new outpatient clinic for veterans has opened in Brattleboro.
The clinic offers primary care, mental health services, electrocardiograms, laboratory tests and preventive services such as pneumonia shots and annual flu shots.
The clinic opened Friday at 71 GSP Drive. Its hours will be Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and Tuesday 10:30 a.m. to 7 p.m.
The search is still on in Keene for a place to put a clinic, said Andrew J. LaCasse, staff assistant to the director of the White River Junction VA Medical Center, which oversees the clinics.
"We definitely want to have a presence there as soon as possible," he said.
With searches for an existing building to move into so far unsuccessful, the federal General Services Administration has been dispatched to try to find a suitable place in the city.
The hope has been to get the clinic running soon, but the hunt for a place has expanded to space where a building could be built, he said.
The Keene clinic would offer primary care and mental health care, and other services. And a veterans center that's temporarily located in Keene City Hall, which offers mental health services, would share the new location, LaCasse said.
Local veterans had long been pushing for a closer option than the White River Junction center, saying that with the area's growing and aging veteran population, it could support its own clinic.
The White River Junction center also oversees outpatient clinics in Littleton, N.H., Bennington, Burlington and Rutland.
To set up an appointment in Brattleboro, call 251-2200.
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