BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) – More than 12,000 veterans in the Baton Rouge area will soon have an easier path to health care. The Department of Veterans Affairs broke ground Tuesday on a new consolidated clinic, combining services currently split between two sites.
Ronald Crowley, a Marine Corps veteran who served in the infantry from 1969 to 1972, regularly uses the two VA clinics in Baton Rouge — one on Essen Lane and one on Anselmo. The clinics are about a 10-minute drive from each other, but veterans needing CAT scans, MRIs, or other mental health services currently have to drive 90 miles to the facility in New Orleans.
“We need all the support we can get,” Crowley said. “You know, veterans, our veterans are hurting. There’s not enough support.”…