Veterans Worried About VA’s Plans To Move Clinic: ‘This Isn’t Just A Building To Us. This Is Our Home’
The VA says the move will consolidate mental health services, improve patient care and increase access to treatment for a wide range of veterans. But veterans are speaking out against it.
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The VA Plans To Move A PTSD Clinic In West LA. These Veterans Say, 'No Way'
As a young man, Michael Folonis witnessed some of the darkest parts of war. ... But lately, he's worried: the VA has informed the PTSD clinic it will be moving from its longtime home to a new building on the other side of the 388-acre campus.That’s because the Los Angeles VA, where Folonis attends group and individual therapy sessions, is in the process of overhauling its huge plot of land in West L.A. between Brentwood and Westwood. (Denkmann, 4/26)