{"id":109222,"date":"2019-09-27T10:26:03","date_gmt":"2019-09-27T14:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=109222"},"modified":"2019-09-27T10:26:03","modified_gmt":"2019-09-27T14:26:03","slug":"brindisi-fights-for-bainbridge-clinic-presses-va-head-to-keep-clinic-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=109222","title":{"rendered":"Brindisi fights for Bainbridge Clinic, presses VA head to keep clinic open"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"220\" height=\"220\" src=\"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Rep-Anthony-Brindisi-Congress.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-102245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Rep-Anthony-Brindisi-Congress.jpg 220w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Rep-Anthony-Brindisi-Congress-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><figcaption>Rep. Anthony Brindisi<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Brindisi: this is a win for rural Veterans; I will fight to\nensure they have access to the care they need<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Congressman Anthony Brindisi fought to protect the\nBainbridge VA clinic in Chenango County at a House Veterans\u2019 Affairs Health\nSubcommittee hearing yesterday and confirmed with Dr. Richard Stone of the\nVeterans\u2019 Health Administration that the clinic will not close in December\n2019, as was previously proposed. Brindisi invited Stone to visit the\nBainbridge facility and see firsthand the need it fills for Chenango County\nVeterans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe bureaucracy down in Washington does not know what it is\nlike to try and access care in our rural communities,\u201d said Brindisi. \u201cIt would\nbe helpful for them to see the Bainbridge facility firsthand and tell the\nAlbany VA to put the brakes on this move. I don\u2019t want to have VA stay in a\nlocation that\u2019s not conducive to serving the needs of the Veterans in that\ncommunity, but I also think that some of the analysis that\u2019s been done in that\nregion is flawed, and I\u2019d like to point that out to the VA.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stone agreed to visit the clinic to better understand how\nrural Veterans receive care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additionally, Brindisi confronted VA representatives over\ntheir premature decision to move the Bainbridge clinic before conducting\nnecessary Market Area Assessments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More than 3,600 Veterans reside in Chenango County and any\nclosure of the Bainbridge facility would result in a disruption in care for\nmany of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brindisi spoke with Stone about the proposal to move the\nBainbridge facility in April at a House Veterans\u2019 Affairs Health Subcommittee\nhearing. A pillar of Brindisi\u2019s \u201cServing Upstate New York Veterans\u201d plan is\nsupporting rural Veterans. Brindisi will continue to look for bipartisan\nsolutions to improve care for all Veterans. A video of Brindisi\u2019s testimony can\nbe viewed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5oud_AY65lc&amp;feature=youtu.be\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brindisi: this is a win for rural Veterans; I will fight to ensure they have access to the care they need Congressman Anthony Brindisi fought to protect the Bainbridge VA clinic in Chenango County at a House Veterans\u2019 Affairs Health Subcommittee hearing yesterday and confirmed with Dr. Richard Stone of the Veterans\u2019 Health Administration that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102245,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23810,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wellbeing","category-top-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=109222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/102245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=109222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=109222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=109222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}