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VA CARES Web Site Live
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The Department of Veterans Affairs Capital Asset Realignment for Enhanced Services (CARES)
Web site www.va.gov/CARES is now available on line to the public.
The public is invited to make comment on VA's National consultant, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, methodology, tools, and options development to implement former VA Secretary, Anthony Principi's CARES decision for the Canandaigua VA announced in May 2004.
" Developing a plan to construct a new multi-specialty clinic and nursing home complex to replace the patient care facilities currently located on the Canandaigua campus,
" Ensure that the decision to dispose of or REUSE excess VA property serves to enhance the Department's mission,
" All patient care services currently in place at the Canandaigua VAMC will be accommodated in the new facilities,
" The new facilities would remain in Canandaigua but the Master Plan will include a careful study of the appropriate size and location of the new facilities, as well as a detailed cost-effectiveness analysis to guarantee maximum use of VA resources,
" The transfer of acute inpatient psychiatric beds from Canandaigua VA to the Buffalo and Syracuse VA Medical Centers.
The first public meeting was held at the Canandaigua VA Wednesday April 20, 2005 from
10:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. People who were unable to attend the meeting can make comment by either accessing the Web site or writing to: VA CARES Studies, PO Box 1427, Washington Grove, MD 20880-1427. The date of the next public meeting will be announced in the near future.
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