Wilmington, NC VA clinic back on track

In November, 2009 the VA announced that a new "Super Clinic" was to be built in Wilmington, NC.
The plan was to have the clinic completed by this year, but hit a snag last year when the developer could not obtain the land needed for the clinic.

A new contractor for the $66 million project has been secured and the plan now is to have the
clinic operating by 2013.

The new clinic will provide specialty services such as audiology, neurology, podiatry and
optometry as well as primary care and mental health care.

North Carolina is home to nearly 800,000 veterans, and the new clinic will serve up to 7 counties
in Wilmington area of Southeastern North Carolina.

Senators Richard Burr (R-NC), Kay Hagan (D-NC) and Congressman Mike McIntyre (D-NC)
have all praised the plans and have indicated they plan to make sure the program stays on
schedule.

Again the VA is to be praised for increasing the availability of care for our veterans. These men
and women sacrificed a great deal to protect our country, now our country must care for them.

Jerald Terwilliger
National Chairman
American Cold War Veterans
"We Remember"



---------------- "And so the greatest of American triumphs... became a peculiarly joyless victory. We had won the Cold War, but there would be no parades." -- Robert M. Gates, 1996

New VA Clinic To Be Built In Auburn Maine

Seven years in the planning, ground was broken for a new Veterans Administration outpatient
clinic in Auburn, Maine. Serving the Lewiston/Auburn area, it is the last major population center
to have such a clinic.

It will be a "Super Clinic" which will provide primary care, specialty services and metal health care
to approximately 6,000 veterans in central Maine each year. This will make health care more
accessible to veterans in Maine.

It is expected to take about one year to construct the clinic.

A similar clinic will open in the next week or two in Bangor, ME.

We applaud the VA for the continued building of clinics and hospitals to better serve our
nation's veterans. We do, however, think even more clinics are needed; and the time to process
claims still needs to be improved. There is still a huge backlog of claims, and the long waiting
period causes undue hardships on veterans and their families.

Jerald Terwilliger
National Chairman
American Cold War Veterans
"We Remember"
---------------- "And so the greatest of American triumphs... became a peculiarly joyless victory. We had won the Cold War, but there would be no parades." -- Robert M. Gates, 1996