{"id":344955,"date":"2026-06-21T19:32:58","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T19:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/344955\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T19:32:58","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T19:32:58","slug":"44-5m-round-rock-veterans-affairs-outpatient-clinic-breaks-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/344955\/","title":{"rendered":"$44.5M Round Rock Veterans Affairs outpatient clinic breaks ground"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCity, county, state and federal officials broke ground on a $44.5 million Veterans Affairs outpatient clinic in Round Rock on June 18.<\/p>\n<p>About the project <\/p>\n<p>As reported by Community Impact in <a href=\"https:\/\/communityimpact.com\/austin\/round-rock\/health-care\/2026\/06\/04\/shorter-drives-faster-care-for-williamson-and-travis-county-veterans\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">June<\/a>, Veterans Affairs data shows that Williamson County is home to nearly 40,000 veterans. Despite a growing population, the only Austin-area VA health care clinics are located in Cedar Park and southeast Austin, limiting nearby care options for area veterans.<\/p>\n<p>To help close this gap, the <a cmp-ltrk=\"Article Links\" cmp-ltrk-idx=\"0\" data-mrf-link=\"https:\/\/www.va.gov\/central-texas-health-care\/\" href=\"https:\/\/www.va.gov\/central-texas-health-care\/\" mrfobservableid=\"46aa58bb-329a-4952-8ca6-0e147d1b557b\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Central Texas Veterans Health Care System<\/a> is building a $44.5 million VA outpatient clinic in Round Rock. The 63,808-square-foot facility is expected to open in 2027 and provide primary and preventative care, mental health support, and other specialty services.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&gt;<\/p>\n<p>The details <\/p>\n<p>Tom Palladino, Texas Veterans Commission executive director, said the support the Round Rock clinic will provide is usually only available at the main hospitals.<\/p>\n<p>He also said the TVC will work to place health care advocates, who help schedule appointments, assist with claims and resolve billing issues, in the new clinics.<\/p>\n<p>Services at the Round Rock clinic will include:<\/p>\n<p>Mental health counseling and therapy programsWomen\u2019s health servicesSpecialty care such as cardiology, orthopedics and pain managementOn-site laboratory and imaging servicesPharmacy supportTelehealth servicesOnce open, the Round Rock clinic is expected to:Expand care for 24,000 veterans in Williamson County and surrounding areasReduce average VA clinic travel times by 60-90 minutesCreate 100 jobs for 12 patient care teamsWhat&#8217;s next? <\/p>\n<p>The facility is expected to be operational by winter 2027.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"City, county, state and federal officials broke ground on a $44.5 million Veterans Affairs outpatient clinic in Round&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":344956,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,123049,123047,123046,123051,123050,123048],"class_list":["post-344955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-hutto-va-clinic","tag-round-rock-va-clinic","tag-round-rock-veterans-clinic","tag-veteran-care-williamson-county","tag-veterans-affairs-williamson-county","tag-williamson-county-va-clinic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344955","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=344955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}