Minneapolis VA Health Care System
New Location For Chippewa Falls, WI, VA Clinic
NorthRidge Center, Chippewa Falls, WI
The Minneapolis VA Health Care System’s Chippewa Falls, WI, Community Based Outpatient Clinic (CBOC) will be expanding into a new location in 2014.
On Oct. 17, the VA announced an award of $1.5 million to Mid-States Development of Eau Claire, WI, to develop space at 475 Chippewa Mall Drive, in the NorthRidge Center, for a 12,150 square foot clinic.
The new clinic is more than twice the size of the current CBOC, located at 2503 County Hwy I in Chippewa Falls.
“We are looking forward to continuing to provide the best care we can to veterans in a new state-of-the-art clinic,” said Clyde Markon, MD, medical director of the Minneapolis VA’s network of 11 CBOCs in Minnesota and western Wisconsin.
Design of the new clinic space will begin immediately with construction anticipated to commence in February 2014 with occupancy in late 2014.
The space will provide primary care, mental health counseling, telemedicine services, social work, pharmacy and radiology. An Operation Enduring Freedom/Operation Iraqi Freedom (OEF/OIF) program case manager will also be housed in the clinic.
The VA will lease the space for 10 years, with a renewal for up to 20 years, with an annual rent of $313,242.
The VA has operated a CBOC in Chippewa Falls since 1998. In 2012, the clinic served 3,938 unique patients.
