Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Veterans treatment center possible for Woodstock


At tonight's City Council meeting the possibility of a long-term care poly-trauma center for veterans was proposed to the City Council. If eventually approved, it would be built on the west end of the stadium-gravel mining operation on U.S. 14.

Wetlands' issues are forcing a site re-design and relocation of the stadium to a point on the north side of U.S. 14 and east of Doty Road.

The veterans' facility would be designed to serve seriously-wounded veterans and to care for the veterans who have no place to go after they are released from the hospital. Termed a Wounded Warrior Transitional Living facility, it would be a licensed nursing home and serve veterans with Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), multiple limb loss, vision, speech, mobility, cognitive and other injuries.

It would be a supportive living facility, perhaps easily compared with an assisted living facility that serves geriatric patients.

Alan Belcher, Executive Director of Transitional Living Services in Hebron, has been active for years in serving veterans, and Alan has been working with government agencies to bring such a facility into existence.

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