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Palo Alto Weekly - $98.8 million slated for new VA rehab center

October 18, 2011

Rep. Eshoo recently applauded the announcement that the VA Palo Alto Health Care System will receive $98.8 million in funding to build the first ever joint Polytrauma and Blind Rehabilitation Center. Sue Dremann of the Palo Alto Weekly covered the story. An excerpt is below:

A new, state-of-the art Polytrauma-Blind Rehabilitation Center to be built at the VA Palo Alto Health Care System campus has just received $98.8 million in funding, the Department of Veterans Affairs announced Tuesday.

Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki awarded the contract to Walsh/DeMaria Joint Venture V of Chicago, Ill., on Sept. 30 to build the new rehab center.

The center will be the VA's first and only Polytrauma Rehabilitation Center to be combined with a Blind Rehabilitation Center. At 174,000 square feet, the new facility will be the largest consolidated rehabilitation center in the Veteran's Affairs system. The Rehabilitation Center includes 24 beds for the polytrauma program, 32 beds for the blind rehabilitation program, and 12 beds for the polytrauma transitional rehabilitation program.

The center will also have an outpatient physical therapy/occupational therapy clinic, an outpatient physical medicine and rehabilitation clinic, and clinical programs for Operation Enduring Freedom/Operation Iraqi Freedom veterans. A 600-car, four-story parking garage will also be constructed adjacent to the new facility.

"VA Palo Alto continues to lead the way in patient care and innovative treatment options for our returning veterans," U.S. Rep. Anna G. Eshoo (D-Palo Alto) stated Tuesday.

"This new state-of-the-art facility is the first of its kind, and will help to ensure that we meet our commitments to the brave women and men returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. I applaud VA Secretary Eric Shinseki and the entire staff at the VA Palo Alto Health Care System for their continued care and devotion to our veterans."

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