New VA Hospital Coming To Tulsa In 2023
Veterans living in the Tulsa metro area will soon have a new VA hospital available to them.
Congress approved $120 million on December 21, and President Trump signed it into law Sunday, to build a new veterans hospital in downtown Tulsa. The hospital will be located at 7th and Houston on the expanded OSU Medical Center Campus; it will convert the existing Kerr-Edmondson Buildings on the site into a 275,000 square-foot, 58-bed medical-surgical hospital for veterans.
More than 30,000 veterans in the Tulsa metro area currently travel to the Jack C. Montgomery Medical Center in Muskogee to receive services. An estimated 78,000 veterans in the Eastern Oklahoma VA area are closer to Tulsa than to Muskogee, leading planners to estimate that the new hospital could help up to 14,000 more veterans each year.
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Ribbon wall corridor that serves as a connector between the new VA ambulatory care center clinics and the older 12-story VA hospital. LEO A DALY
The ribbon wall on a corridor of the new VA Ambulatory Care Center has hues of glass emulating the ribbon racks (or color bars) that service men and women wear on their uniforms. This is intended to symbolize honor. LEO A DALY
Scott Charles Ross, a native of Waterloo, NE, served in the US Navy. He resides in Des Moines, Iowa. Pieces such as White Washed House, Green Fields and Zennor Farms are his interpretations of the primitive Cornish landscape that evokes a simpler way of life, according to the commemorative book created by LEO A Daly about the VA Ambulatory Care Center.
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Ribbon wall corridor that serves as a connector between the new VA ambulatory care center clinics and the older 12-story VA hospital. LEO A DALY
The ribbon wall on a corridor of the new VA Ambulatory Care Center has hues of glass emulating the ribbon racks (or color bars) that service men and women wear on their uniforms. This is intended to symbolize honor. LEO A DALY
Scott Charles Ross, a native of Waterloo, NE, served in the US Navy. He resides in Des Moines, Iowa. Pieces such as White Washed House, Green Fields and Zennor Farms are his interpretations of the primitive Cornish landscape that evokes a simpler way of life, according to the commemorative book created by LEO A Daly about the VA Ambulatory Care Center.