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Fresno's VA Medical Center To Expand Into Clovis

Fresno’s Veterans Affairs medical center has announced it will be expanding to a new campus in Clovis.

The VA Central California Health Care System has bought nine acres of property off of Highway 168, near Clovis Community Medical Center and the soon-to-be medical school at California Health Sciences University.

There, spokesman Cameron Porter says the VA plans to open a 250-thousand-square-foot health center. "Part of this ambulatory care center that we hope to build will include an outpatient primary care facility as well as specialty services like optometry, audiology and dentistry," he says.

The reason for the expansion, Porter says, is the region’s growing population.

He says the entire facility should be finished in 10-20 years, though some phases will be finished earlier. The first will be a parking lot, to allow patients and employees to shuttle to the Fresno facility.

Meanwhile, the VA's Fresno medical center itself is growing, with a ribbon cutting on Friday for its expanded nursing home facility.

Kerry Klein is an award-winning reporter whose coverage of public health, air pollution, drinking water access and wildfires in the San Joaquin Valley has been featured on NPR, KQED, Science Friday and Kaiser Health News. Her work has earned numerous regional Edward R. Murrow and Golden Mike Awards and has been recognized by the Association of Health Care Journalists and Society of Environmental Journalists. Her podcast Escape From Mammoth Pool was named a podcast “listeners couldn’t get enough of in 2021” by the radio aggregator NPR One.
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