COLORADO SPRINGS — Eschewing two old, crammed buildings for one new one, the Department of Veterans Affairs this week opened its long-awaited Colorado Springs health care clinic — framing it as a way to expand care and ease wait times for the region’s fast-growing veteran population.
Patients bustled in and out of the spacious facility during its first day of business, picking up prescriptions, visiting doctors and waiting for their names to be called while, at times, sipping java from a coffee shop in the lobby.
The clinic marks the latest VA health care expansion in Colorado after more than a decade of war.
It also comes as the massive agency deals with a nationwide scandal over lengthy delays in care and falsified appointment records, including claims that Colorado Springs workers manipulated appointments to downplay long wait times to their managers.
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