VA announces new outpatient clinics coming to Copperas Cove and Killeen

By LYNETTE SOWELL

Cove Leader-Press

The Central Texas VA Health Care System announced on Thursday that it has awarded contracts for two new community-based outpatient clinics (CBOC) in Copperas Cove and Killeen.

Scheduled to open this fall, the Copperas Cove clinic will be located at 336 Town Square and the Killeen clinic at 1001 East Veterans Memorial Blvd., suite 401.

“These new clinics were recently approved by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs as part of a nationwide effort to provide expanded health care to our nation’s Veterans,” said Michael Kiefer, Executive Director of the Central Texas VA Health Care System.

The clinics will offer primary care and women’s health services.

The Central Texas VA already has five CBOCs in Brownwood, Cedar Park, College Station, Palestine, and La Grange; a stand-alone multi-specialty clinic in Austin; and the Temple VA Clinic Annex.

Potomac Valor Healthcare, the contractor for the Copperas Cove clinic, currently provides health care for more than 165,000 Veterans in about 50 CBOCs across the country.

“What makes us different is our company is led by not only service-disabled Veterans, but also by physicians,” said Scott C. Wise M.D., M.B.A., Potomac Valor Healthcare president & CEO. “Our sole focus with the brand-new Copperas Cove CBOC is to ensure area Veterans receive health care of the highest possible quality. We don’t measure ourselves by what others do, but rather by the highest standards of health care quality in the country. In partnership with the Central Texas Veterans Health Care System, we at Potomac Valor can’t wait for Veterans in Copperas Cove to walk into their own, newly designed, state-of-the-art medical home, and we look forward to helping Veterans achieve their best possible health.”

For more information, visit https://www.va.gov/central-texas-health-care.