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.