Veterans Affairs conducting Albany town hall on Monday
American Legion Post 30 hosting town hall for Carl Vinson VA Medical Center
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By Jennifer Parks
ALBANY — Officials the Carl Vinson Veterans Affairs Medical Center are coming outside of their facility in Dublin to conduct a quarterly town hall meeting next week at the American Legion Post 30 in Albany.
The town hall will be at 11:30 a.m. on Monday at the post, which is located at 2916 Gillionville Road. Maryalice Morro, the medical center’s director, will oversee the meeting and VA staff will accompany her to provide information on programs and services, such as suicide prevention and homelessness mitigation.
Frank Jordan, spokesman for the VA center, said there will also be a veteran spotlight, with John Daniels, a prisoner of war during World War II, opening the event as a guest speaker. After a brief overview from Morro, she will take questions and comments from those in attendance.
“We do them every quarter,” Jordan said. “Because we are rural health care, we like to get out (of Dublin).”
The Carl Vinson VA has several community clinics located outside Dublin, including one within the Naval Branch Health Clinic at Marine Corps Logistics Base-Albany. The others are in Brunswick, Macon, Milledgeville, Perry and Tifton. Officials typically alternate sites for meetings at venues that are near the clinics.
Jordan said officials attempt to get out to all the communities to which the medical center has ties. The purpose is to educate people about what the VA does, but also to offer a feedback opportunity for veterans to tell officials what they might be doing wrong for the 52 counties the Dublin-based center serves.
“We are always hoping to get information we can use,” Jordan said. “We hope people turn out and give us the information we need to be better.”
Refreshments will be available. For more information on the event, contact Jordan (478) 274-5440.
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