{"id":237316,"date":"2026-04-06T16:09:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T16:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/237316\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T16:09:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T16:09:07","slug":"san-antonios-2027-budget-includes-30-million-for-new-veterans-medical-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/237316\/","title":{"rendered":"San Antonio&#8217;s 2027 budget includes $30 million for new veterans medical center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<img width=\"640\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/GettyImages-965238550-640x400.jpg\" class=\"object-cover wp-post-image\" alt=\"San Antonio\u2019s 2027 budget includes $30 million for new veterans medical center\" post-type=\"post\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/>\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tAerial photo taken over a building with a Texas Flag in downtown San Antonio, Texas during sunset.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>SAN ANTONIO (KTSA News) \u2014 Health care for veterans in San Antonio appears to be getting a boost.<\/p>\n<p>The proposed city budget for 2027 includes $30 million to buy land for a new veterans medical center in the Alamo City.<\/p>\n<p>KSAT-12 reports the proposal comes a month after Mayor Gina Jones and Bexar County Judge Peter Sakai sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs requesting support for the new Veterans Affairs center.<\/p>\n<p>Jones has offered several factors that drive her push for a new facility that would replace the Audie L. Murphy Memorial Veterans Hospital. These include 64% of those enrolled in veteran health care in the region being under 64 years old. That number is reportedly higher than the national average.<\/p>\n<p>Also under consideration for the new facility is the number of female veterans getting healthcare in South Texas, which is on the rise.<\/p>\n<p>There is no specific timeline for the land purchase or the beginning of construction of the new facility.<\/p>\n<p>More about:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aerial photo taken over a building with a Texas Flag in downtown San Antonio, Texas during sunset. SAN&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":237317,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[11143,91301,3025,82,84,83,91302],"class_list":{"0":"post-237316","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-city-budget","9":"tag-gina-jones","10":"tag-peter-sakai","11":"tag-san-antonio","12":"tag-san-antonio-headlines","13":"tag-san-antonio-news","14":"tag-veterans-medical-center"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}