New clinic represents a leap forward in veteran care
CENTER TWP — With VA Butler Healthcare's new clinic set to begin serving patients in less than two weeks, VA officials offered up a rare tour of the new facility on Friday, highlighting what the system believes will be the new model of veteran care.
David Cord, executive director of VA Butler Healthcare, called the new facility on Duffy Road — a sleek building featuring spacious public areas and state-of-the-art equipment — a leap forward when it comes to specialty care and outpatient services for the nearly 35,000 veterans that live within VA Butler Healthcare's five-county service area. The system currently enrolls about 25,000 of those veterans, said Ken Kalberer, the VA's communications director, and that number is expected to eclipse 30,000 sometime next year.
The wide range of ages and health care needs within that group of veterans served by the VA Butler Healthcare means the system has worked hard to integrate and diversify its offerings, Cord said. But that work was often hampered or blunted by the aging New Castle Road facility.
Cord said that the new clinic will offer not just an upgraded and modernized facility, but more opportunities to integrate specialty services from the VA system in Pittsburgh.
A full report will appear in the Butler Eagle.
