Military Times April 4, 2022
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.
I understand the role of members and others to advocate for their interests, but we must be mindful that without comprehensive infrastructure reform, VA’s health care system will perish. Those who have already...
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