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Facility News

Facility News

Construction Progress on VA Butler's New Health Care Center (HCC)

Artist rendering of the new health care center building.

Construction continues on the 168,000 square foot Health Care Center (HCC) in Butler, Pennsylvania. Construction will be complete next year.

On April 6, 2016, VA Butler celebrated the construction progress with a "Topping Out Ceremony." At the ceremony, the final steel beam was placed for this new facility.

Once complete, the HCC will be a two-story building located on North Duffy Road, approximately 1.4 miles away from the VA Butler campus. The HCC will expand VA Butler Healthcare's outpatient services and will include primary care, specialty care, dental, lab, pathology, radiology, mental health, and ancillary and diagnostic services.

At the end of 2014, VA awarded a lease contract for a Health Care Center (HCC) to Cambridge Healthcare Solutions PA, LP (Cambridge), of Vienna, Virginia.

Visit www.butler.va.gov for more information, including live updates at the construction site.

Wilmington VA Recognized for Equality

The Wilmington VA Medical Center was one of eight hospitals in Delaware to be named a "2016 Leader in LGBT Healthcare Equality" for participation in the Human Rights Campaign Healthcare Equality Index. This is an annual survey conducted by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation, the educational arm of the country's largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) organization.

Wilmington VAMC earned recognition for its commitment to equitable, inclusive care for LGBT patients and their families, who can face significant challenges in securing adequate health care. Criteria for the award also included non-discrimination policies for LGBT patients and employees, a guarantee of equal visitation for same-sex partners and parents, and LGBT health education for key staff members.

Behavioral Health Building Opened

VA officials, leadership and other dignitaries cut the ribbon for the new behavioral health building.

The James E. Van Zandt VA Medical Center in Altoona, Pennsylvania, held a ribbon cutting and open house for the new Behavioral Health Building this spring. The building houses 50 staff who offer general mental health, trauma services (including Military Sexual Trauma and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder), and substance abuse to support the mental wellbeing of more than 4,000 Veterans.

Coming Soon: New Parking Garage

The James E. Van Zandt Medical Center in Altoona, Pennsylvania, is building a 117,000 square-feet, three-tier parking garage that will provide a total of 324 parking spaces and an additional 79 surface level parking spaces. Just some of the garage's features are: two elevators, a covered walkway from the garage to the medical center's main entrance, improved traffic flow around the garage, a police office, and the ability to add three additional tiers in the future.

Artist rendering of the new parking garage.