The VA Lebanon Healthcare System held a ribbon-cutting ceremony and open house March 12 for the recently expanded and remodeled Outpatient Behavioral Health Clinic.
This remodel is the third and final phase of new treatment space for Behavioral and Mental Healthcare at the Lebanon VAMC.
This phase of the project included renovations to 6,000 square feet, which includes six private offices, three shared offices, six cubicle workstations, and one conference room. The total outcome of the 23,000-square-foot renovation yielded 45 consult rooms, one check-in area, two triage areas, two waiting rooms, 10 offices, eight bathrooms, and four group rooms.
Douglas A. Etter, chief communications officer for the Lebanon VAMC, said in a press release that the new clinic is “set amid the backdrop of a warm, calm, and peaceful environment.”
The $1.4 million space will host an inter-professional team of clinicians to support veterans in their behavioral health needs through therapeutic and evidence-based programming, the release said, noting that the new clinic will offer veterans a comfortable space “with a focus on reducing stress and anxiety while promoting timely access, collaborative care, and a focus on veteran recovery goals.”
“By creating this space, we are improving the environment of care,” Dr. Piro Rjepaj, associate chief of staff, said in the release. “Our commitment to Veterans is unshakable and unwavering. Our promise to them is to give our very best, every day, always; and our hope for them is to know first hand the experience of healing, wholeness and peace.”
Lebanon VAMC serves a nine-county area in south-central Pennsylvania covering Adams, Berks, Cumberland, Dauphin, Lancaster, Lebanon, Perry, Schuylkill, and York counties, and oversees community clinics in Mechanicsburg, Pottsville, Willow Street, Wyomissing, and York.
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