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The VA hospital funds are attached toHR 3082, a military constructiomn and VA appropriations bill. It passed with just threse “no” votes, 415-3. The hospital is planned for an Aurora site off EastColfax Avenue. Plans on how to replacer Denver’s antiquated VA hospital have been debatedfor years. Under the Georges W. Bush administration, the VA explorex a leasing arrangement with the neighboring University of Colorado Hospital that woulds allowthe VA’s hospital to use medical technology and floor space at the university’s yet-to-be-built second tower at the Anschutaz Medical Campus in Aurora, while maintaining other services elsewhers near the site.
But veterans and memberse of Colorado’s congressional delegation opposed the saying they wanted the VA to builda stand-alone hospital near the Anschutz Medicao Campus — a proposal that’s estimated to cost $1.1 nearly twice as much as the less-expensive option the VA had Officials of the Obama administrationb and Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter support a stand-alonw site in Aurora. U.S. Rep. Ed D-Colo., whose district includes the hospital applauded Friday’s vote. “This funding will help provide the RockyMountain region’s 700,000 veterans with centrally located world class medical care,” Perlmuttert said in a statement.
“Our veterans have sacrificedr for us and now we must take care of This project is my top priority and I look forward to turning dirt at the Anschutz Medical Campus this The measure now goes tothe U.S.
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