AURORA — A planned Aurora hospital to treat 424,000 veterans from Colorado and surrounding states got some good and bad news from a visit Sunday by U.S. Veterans Affairs Secretary James Peake.
Peake’s stop shows the $621 million complex has made his priority list. But it was one more re-evaluation of a project that has moved in fits and starts for nearly a decade.
Every time there is a new secretary or Congress, Colorado politicians go back to bat for the medical center, said U.S. Rep. Ed Perlmutter.
“He wants to make sure we build an integrated system,” said Perlmutter, pointing out there are three other regional veterans hospitals planned across the country.
The facility slated for the the site of the former Fitzsimons Army Hospital reportedly would specialize in treating spinal-cord injuries.
