VA plans town hall meetings


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The Roseburg Veterans Affairs staff will host two town hall meetings Wednesday in Bandon and North Bend to discuss plans to build its new clinic in North Bend.

Roseburg VA Healthcare System Director Susan Yeager and staff will be on hand at the VFW Post No. 3440 at 55352 Bates Road in Bandon from 3 to 4 p.m., and at the Pony Village Mall, Suite 151 in North Bend from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Wednesday to answer questions. Veterans and the public are welcome and refreshments will be served, a press release said.

In April, the Roseburg VA announced plans to close its Bandon clinic and  build a bigger facility on a site west of the Pony Village Mall near the intersection of Marion Avenue and 12th Street.

It will be just shy of 10,000 square feet, about 4,000 square feet larger than the existing clinic in Bandon. The new clinic is designed to provide non-urgent primary care and mental health services to more than 2,000 veterans.

Sharon Carlson, assistant to the Roseburg VA director, said the new clinic will have the same number of staff as the Bandon facility but will be designed  to provide more timely service to veterans.
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dave wrote on Jun 24, 2008 7:04 AM:

I,m sure glad to hear that they are coming to town with a new bigger clinic.It should have been located here where the population is 10 times what Bandon has ...I think the people who i have dealt with down there are mostly nice and considerat...

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Samuel wrote on Jun 23, 2008 6:46 PM:

I am curious to know besides picking up the pace with patient care, are they retraining the current staff to be nicer and more compassionate towards the heros who served this nation. Because there are a few people who work there that I feel need a lesson in customer service. They are people who have never served either so I feel that they need this grooming bigtime. You all know who you are and the Vets who go to that clinic in Bandon know who I am reffering to. If the VA wants to make the service better for Vets at that Clinic, Stop hiring non-veterans to those jobs and start placing Vets who are seeking the jobs because they know how to relate to Vets and the issues that they all face. Hey Bandon Clinic, if the shoe fits, Wear it!!!

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