{"id":13517,"date":"2012-09-20T20:44:49","date_gmt":"2012-09-21T01:44:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=13517"},"modified":"2012-09-21T09:03:39","modified_gmt":"2012-09-21T14:03:39","slug":"va-healthcare-center-to-open-dec-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2012\/09\/va-healthcare-center-to-open-dec-17\/","title":{"rendered":"VA Healthcare Center <br> to Open Dec 17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/va-healthcare-center-to-open-dec-17\/lee-county-va-clinc\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-13518\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13518\" title=\"Lee County VA Clinc\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Lee-County-VA-Clinc-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Lee-County-VA-Clinc-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Lee-County-VA-Clinc.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The newly built Lee County Veterans Administration\u00a0 Healthcare Center will open its doors to patients Dec. 17, 2012, officials announced Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Workers now are finishing\u00a0 installation of medical equipment at the 220,000 square-foot facility at 2489 Diplomat Parkway East,\u00a0 Cape Coral<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a remarkable and exciting time for our healthcare system and for the veterans and families we serve, \u201csaid Suzanne Klinker, director of the Bay Pines VA, in a prepared statement. \u201cJust a few years ago this new facility was just a sketch on a piece of paper. Now, in a just a few short months the doors will open to our nation\u2019s heroes.\u201d<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Once open the health center will replace the existing VA facility on Winkler Extension in Fort Myers.<\/p>\n<p>The Fort Myers VA Outpatient Clinic currently employs about 330 staff.<\/p>\n<p>Bay Pines VA officials said they expect to hire an additional 70 employees to work at the new healthcare center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The newly built Lee County Veterans Administration\u00a0 Healthcare Center will open its doors to patients Dec. 17, 2012, officials announced Thursday afternoon. Workers now are finishing\u00a0 installation of medical equipment&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":13518,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13517"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}