Truman VA will celebrate the start of construction of a new Community Living Center (CLC) with a groundbreaking ceremony next week. Construction of the new CLC will be a two-phase project. Phase one will include construction of a 14-bed long-term care facility with access to the hospital’s park, as well as the development of a facility-specific courtyard and bistro for use by residents and their families. Phase one is scheduled to be completed in Spring 2022.

Construction of a new CLC will provide Truman VA’s long-term care Veteran patients with a larger, state-of-the-art, home-away-from-home facility. Additionally, by constructing a new, stand-alone facility right next to Truman VA on the hospital’s campus, the internal space previously occupied by the CLC will be used to create a new leading-edge inpatient medicine unit. Moving the inpatient medicine unit from its current fourth-floor location to the hospital’s third floor also brings all of Truman VA’s inpatient care units onto the same floor for more convenient and comprehensive inpatient care.

The ground breaking ceremony will be held at 10 a.m. Monday, Oct. 26, 2020. The event will take place at the Truman VA Parking Lot C, located on the northwest corner of the VA hospital’s campus at 800 Hospital Drive in Columbia.