Construction has begun on an $86 million expansion to the Omaha (Neb.) VA Medical Center, which will add a 157,000-square-foot ASC slated for completion in summer 2020, The Daily Nonpareil reports.
Here are three things to know.
1. The ASC will include new exam rooms, an outpatient surgery suite and a women's health clinic, allowing approximately 400 additional outpatients to visit the medical center per day.
2. The new clinic is the result of a first-of-its-kind partnership between the Department of Veterans Affairs and Heritage Services, an Omaha nonprofit group.
3. The VA is contributing $56 million that was it set aside for a new hospital in 2011. Plans for a new hospital fell through due to large cost overruns on other VA construction projects.
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