RSSWalla Walla VA center gets $71.4M boost
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YAKIMA -- The Jonathan M. Wainwright Memorial VA Medical Center in Walla Walla will receive $71.4 million for design and construction of a new outpatient clinic, U.S. Sen. Patty Murray announced this morning.
Murray, who is in line to become chairwoman of the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee, has fought to keep the existing clinic open for the last five years.
“This is a major victory that veterans in southeast Washington, northern Oregon and Idaho have waited a long time for,” Murray said in a news release. “Thousands of veterans rely on the Walla Walla VA and today they can look forward to a new era of quality, expanded local care.”
The funding approved today will go toward the design and construction of a 65,000-square-foot outpatient clinic that will be located on the campus of the Jonathan M. Wainwright Memorial VA Medical Center. The clinic will serve nearly 70,000 area veterans.
-- Leah Beth Ward
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