Community-Based Outpatient Clinic - Holdrege

Coming soon ---- The Holdrege Community-Based Outpatient Clinic
Site selected (see news release below)

NEWS RELEASE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

VA Selects site for Holdrege Outpatient Clinic

October 18, 2007.    The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Nebraska-Western Iowa Health Care System has selected a lot along Highway 283 (adjacent to Sonic) as the site of the new VA Community Based Outpatient clinic in Holdrege, Nebraska.  The facility is being developed by Syberia Enterprises which is led by Mark Benjamin and Mike Kalb of BD Construction Inc. of Kearney, Nebraska.  A 5,700 sq. ft. building will be constructed on the land to accommodate approximately 2,800 veterans per year. 

The team is working diligently to break ground this fall.  During the construction phase of the new Holdrege Clinic, VA will be hiring additional clinical and support staff and purchasing furniture and equipment.

Veterans will be able to access primary care and mental health services at the new clinic which brings healthcare closer to home.   Dr. Gary Vandewege has been hired as the primary care physician and Dr. Chanel Helgason has been hired as the mental health psychiatrist.  They are both currently working at the Grand Island facility.  The clinic will have multiple exam rooms, videoconferencing services for group and specialty clinics, and a minor procedure room available on site.

VA Nebraska-Western Iowa has been approved for three other Community Based Outpatient Clinics in their Health Care System.  In addition to Holdrege, CBOCs will be established in Shenandoah, Iowa and Bellevue and Norfolk, Nebraska.  They have developed a business plan for each of them and are working through the VA contracting process to select the clinic sites. 

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