Veterans Move Into New Health Care Center In Rocky Hill CT

Veterans Move Into New Health Care Center In Rocky Hill
By ANN MARIE SOMMA | The Hartford Courant
October 24, 2008
ROCKY HILL — - Sailors from the Naval Submarine Base in New London and soldiers with the Connecticut National Guard on Thursday began moving frail and sick veterans at the Rocky Hill Veterans Home into a new health care center on campus.

The 125-bed center will treat about 100 veterans, including some who served in World War II and those who have Alzheimer's disease and require long-term medical care. The veterans have been treated in an outdated hospital on campus, which was built between 1937 and 1940.

During a dedication ceremony in June, Gov. M. Jodi Rell named the 87,000-square-foot center after Sgt. John L. Levitow, a U.S. Air Force Medal of Honor recipient and state native who worked and lived on campus for almost a decade.

"This is the fulfillment of a promise we made to our beloved Rocky Hill veterans long ago to build them a new health center they could proudly call their home," Rell said Thursday in a prepared statement.

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