Aurora VA hospital funding still up in the air

The VA is working with Congress to come to an agreement to fund the project


Colorado's Aurora VA hospital funding is still up in the air while the VA is working with Congress to come to an agreement to fund the project, which is $1.1 billion over budget and years behind schedule, according to an article on the Denver Business Journal website.

A temporary funding plan was put in place in June that keeps the project funded through the end of the federal fiscal year on Sept. 30.

In June, the VA  offered a proposal hat includes delaying the construction of the Aurora  community living center and  post-traumatic stress rehabilitation program as well as re-appropriating money from elsewhere.

The project is roughly 50 percent finished after more than four years of construction.

Read the article.

 

 



August 17, 2015


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