A town hall meeting is set for Saturday for Northeast Georgia veterans to learn more about efforts to bring a VA clinic to Habersham. The meeting will take place at 11 a.m. on August 27 at the Grant-Reeves Veteran Center in Cornelia. All area veterans and their families are invited to attend.
In a report released in March, the Veterans Department of Affairs proposed building a community-based outpatient clinic in the Baldwin area. The clinic would serve to cut drive time and improve health care access for veterans in the region. Thousands of area veterans now have to drive nearly an hour, at minimum, to get to their VA doctors.
Nearly 400 people have signed an online petition supporting the clinic. Leaders of local veterans groups including Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) and Disabled American Veterans (DAV) are urging more community support. They organized Saturday’s town hall meeting as part of that effort.
Click here to show your support for the Habersham VA Clinic
“One of the main goals [of the town hall] is to spread awareness within the veteran community in an effort to affirm the need for a Community-Based Outpatient Clinic (CBOC) and, hopefully, expedite the process from 8-10 years down to 2-3 years,” says Jim Morgan, commander of the local DAV chapter. “In addition, we hope to show support justifying a mobile CBOC to be located in the county immediately.”
Representatives from the VA have been invited to attend. The Grant-Reeves Veteran Center is located at 174 Cornelia Crossing Shopping Center.
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