{"id":188265,"date":"2026-04-07T13:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T13:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/188265\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T13:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T13:32:08","slug":"with-va-clinic-on-chopping-block-lawmaker-seeks-answers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/188265\/","title":{"rendered":"With VA clinic on chopping block, lawmaker seeks answers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A state lawmaker is pushing for answers after Veterans Affairs announced plans to close a clinic in Schenectady.<\/p>\n<p>Assemblyman Angelo Santabarbara says he&#8217;s filed a Freedom of Information Act request after federal authorities announced plans to close the Schenectady Community-Based Outpatient Clinic, located in the Hannaford Plaza on Altamont Avenue, in August.<\/p>\n<p>Santabarbara has previously called to keep the VA clinic open and is seeking to know whether decision-makers looked at any alternatives.<\/p>\n<p>Federal authorities have stated that they are working to transfer patients to other local VA sites, noting that most patients live closer to another clinic in Clifton Park.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A state lawmaker is pushing for answers after Veterans Affairs announced plans to close a clinic in Schenectady.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188266,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[206,109,9,11,10,49,51,50,12,87,380],"class_list":{"0":"post-188265","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-albany-capital-region","9":"tag-app-local-state-politics","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-headlines","12":"tag-new-york-news","13":"tag-new-york-state","14":"tag-new-york-state-headlines","15":"tag-new-york-state-news","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-politics","18":"tag-spectrum-news-staff"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}