Lubbock will soon have a VA clinic to be proud of.
The new Lubbock VA Outpatient Clinic on 4th Street and Indiana Avenue, across the street from the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, will open on Tuesday, June 1.
The $12.3 million, multi-story facility will offer 94,000 square feet of clinical space and new services. Of the many new services are surgical care, an eye clinic, radiology services, physical medicine and rehabilitation, and more.
According to the Amarillo Veterans Administration Health Care System, the new building will allow for expanded primary care, mental health, telehealth, dental and pharmacy services.
Dr. Rodney Gonzalez, director of the Amarillo VA Health Care System, which the Lubbock VA falls under, says the new clinic is more than three times larger than the current facility. He said this is a modern clinic, adding that it s a facility that the region will be proud of.
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When Robert Celestial arrived on Lowja Island in the Marshall Islands Enewetak Atoll in 1977, he was given a shovel and gloves and told to get to work. Like his fellow troops, he waded into the muck at the bottom of an atomic bomb crater and began digging.
He was dressed in shorts. We were young soldiers. We didn t know what we were doing, Celestial told Military.com last year. So many of my friends have passed away.
Since at least 2018, Celestial has worked for passage of the Mark Takai Atomic Veterans Healthcare Parity Act, a bill that would recognize hundreds of veterans who participated in decontamination and containment work in Enewetak from 1977 to 1980 as atomic veterans.