Ann Ashford remembers the first times she toured the Veterans of Administrative Affairs medical center in Omaha.
The exam rooms were cramped. The place felt old. There wasn’t even a restroom there for female veterans.
Her husband, then U.S. Rep. Brad Ashford, “saw a need and saw a way to solve it,” she said, pulling together a unique public-private partnership with Omaha’s philanthropic community and the federal government…