Title: Celebrating the opening of the new Lubbock, Texas, Veterans Affairs medical clinic, in partnership with Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, University Medical Center, and Covenant Health, through the VA MISSION Act of 2018.
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
This resolution celebrates the opening of the Department of Veterans Affairs medical clinic in Lubbock, Texas, in partnership with Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, University Medical Center, and Covenant Health.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 432 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. RES. 432

  Celebrating the opening of the new Lubbock, Texas, Veterans Affairs 
   medical clinic, in partnership with Texas Tech University Health 
   Sciences Center, University Medical Center, and Covenant Health, 
                  through the VA MISSION Act of 2018.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 25, 2021

Mr. Arrington submitted the following resolution; which was referred to 
                   the Committee on Veterans' Affairs

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                               RESOLUTION


 
  Celebrating the opening of the new Lubbock, Texas, Veterans Affairs 
   medical clinic, in partnership with Texas Tech University Health 
   Sciences Center, University Medical Center, and Covenant Health, 
                  through the VA MISSION Act of 2018.

Whereas the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center has partnered with 
        Veterans Affairs (VA) to provide expanded healthcare to the veterans of 
        West Texas;
Whereas the veterans of Lubbock, including five prominent retired generals 
        (Lieutenant General Bernhard Mittemeyer, M.D., Major General Walter 
        Huffman, J.D., Major General Edgar Murphy, Major General Annette Sobel, 
        M.D., and Brigadier General Gary Harber) and civic leaders of West 
        Texas, recognized the need for improved VA healthcare and access;
Whereas Lubbock, Texas, a city with a population of nearly 300,000, was 200 
        miles from the nearest VA clinic;
Whereas data provided by the VA showed that of 323,000 veterans in West Texas, 
        only 167,000 were enrolled in the VA and this clinic will drastically 
        improve the healthcare of those veterans;
Whereas the City of Lubbock averages zero homeless veterans per 1,000 veterans;
Whereas the Lubbock VA clinic--

    (1) will provide radiology and cardiology services;

    (2) will provide CT, MRI, and X-ray services;

    (3) will provide mental and behavioral health services;

    (4) will contribute economic growth and jobs to the local economy;

    (5) will alleviate the inconvenience of traveling over 200 miles to 
receive care; and

    (6) will be capable of assisting a larger number of veterans on a day-
to-day basis: Now, therefore, be it

    Resolved, That the House of Representatives celebrates the opening 
of the new Lubbock, Texas, Veterans Affairs medical clinic, in 
partnership with Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, 
University Medical Center, and Covenant Health, pursuant to the VA 
MISSION Act of 2018 (Public Law 115-182).
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