A new 58-bed Department of Veterans Affairs hospital is coming to Tulsa, OK.
The Eastern Oklahoma VA Health Care System will open the facility in 2024, according to a VA blog post.
“The new VA hospital in Tulsa is a historic victory. It will offer long-lasting and far-reaching benefits for our veterans, VA, and our community,” said Mark E. Morgan, director of the Eastern Oklahoma VA Health Care Center.
Located at 7th and Houston in downtown Tulsa, the facility will be part of the Oklahoma State University Medical Center Campus. It is also the first VA hospital in the nation built as part of a public-private partnership.
The project combines federal and private funds from the Anne & Henry Zarrow Foundation. The State of Oklahoma is also assisting by donating the Kerr-Edmondson buildings, which will be converted into the hospital. The City of Tulsa has committed to building an onsite parking garage, according to the post.
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National and local VA officials joined OSU, private donors, and other city and state officials to celebrate the partnership and to ceremoniously break ground on the future hospital last month.
The new hospital is part of VA’s efforts to expand services in the Tulsa metro area and northeast Oklahoma. Eastern Oklahoma VA serves veterans in 25 counties in eastern Oklahoma. Approximately 72% of those veterans live in the Tulsa metro area.
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VA opened the new Ernest Childers VA Outpatient Clinic in Tulsa in July of 2021. The clinic is more than four times the size of the previous one and offers new services, such as endoscopy, chemotherapy/infusion, mammography, and expanded outpatient services. VA will open a new outpatient clinic in Bartlesville in 2022.
The Tulsa hospital is also the first VA facility to be built under the Communities Helping Invest through Property and Improvements Needed for Veterans Act of 2016 (CHIP-IN Act). The act authorizes VA to form a public-private partnership and accept up to five donations from non-federal entities.
Reach Julia LeDoux at Julia@connectingvets.com.