{"id":475858,"date":"2026-10-25T00:19:06","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T00:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/475858\/"},"modified":"2026-10-25T00:19:06","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T00:19:06","slug":"new-va-clinic-provides-more-access-for-veterans-near-plano-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/475858\/","title":{"rendered":"New VA clinic provides more access for Veterans near Plano, Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Identifying challenges and gaps to convenient VA health care in the fast growing Plano market, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northtexas.va.gov\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">VA North Texas Health Care System, <\/a>with the help of\u00a0U.S. Rep. and Air Force Veteran and former Vietnam POW\u00a0Sam Johnson, set out in 2012 to bring VA outpatient services to Plano-area Veterans.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northtexas.va.gov\/features\/New_VA_Outpatient_Clinic_coming_to_Plano.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Plano VA Outpatient Clinic<\/a> opened for patient care Aug. 31, implementing aspects of whole health in its construction and design, and is the first VA clinic to assign full time health coaches to each Patient Aligned Care Team. \u00a0On Friday, Sept. 16, at 9:30 a.m., the Plano clinic will host an official grand opening and dedication event for the community of Plano.<\/p>\n<p>The state-of-the-art clinic is approximately 10,000 square feet\u00a0and provides integrated holistic primary care, mental health, telemedicine, laboratory and x-ray services in an environment designed for healing. Alternative therapies such as acupuncture, clinical massage and a women\u2019s clinic enriches physical healing and supports the whole health pathway to help Veterans reach their overall health goals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe newly-activated Plano VA Outpatient Clinic is VA\u2019s initial footprint in the expansion plans for the Plano market,\u201d\u00a0said VA North Texas Director Jeff Milligan. Construction of a new estimated 17,000 sq. ft. specialty care clinic has been approved and will begin the initial design phase in FY 2017.<\/p>\n<p>VA North Texas Health Care System serves more than 119,000 patients each year, delivering more than 1.4 million outpatient visits to Veterans in 38 North Texas counties and two counties in southern Oklahoma.<\/p>\n<p>VAntage Point would like to hear from you about the issues Veterans face. If you have a story you would like to share with us and your fellow Veterans, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.va.gov\/how-to-submit-a-guest-post\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here\u2019s how to submit it. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Identifying challenges and gaps to convenient VA health care in the fast growing Plano market, VA North Texas&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":475859,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[160,162,161],"class_list":["post-475858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-plano","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475858","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=475858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}