VA Hospital Aims To Serve New, Younger Vets

VA Hospital Aims To Serve New, Younger Vets
Dorn Medical Center breaks ground on facilities for Afghanistan and Iraq combat veterans
By: ELLEN MEDER
Published: September 28, 2011

COLUMBIA, S.C. --
The Dorn Veterans Affairs Medical Center broke ground on new facilities that will serve the changing demographic of veterans returning from war.

In a ceremony in Columbia Wednesday, hospital officials and veterans celebrated the new Freedom Health Center, which will help give combat veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan outpatient care.

Construction on the 10,000-square foot building will begin Friday. The project will give the hospital staff much needed office space, and more exam rooms for patients who need specialty care, labs and x-rays.

The medical center, as well as its seven satellite facilities through the Upstate and Midlands, aim to screen all returning combat veterans for spinal injuries, hazardous exposure, post traumatic stress disorder and depression.
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