VETERANS CARE EASIER WITH CLINIC IN LANCASTER.Byline: Karen Maeshiro Daily News Staff Writer Retired Air Force Chief Master Sgt. Jim Ang says a new Veterans Affairs Veterans Affairs is a term of the business that deals with the relation between a government and its veteran communities, usually administered by the designated government agency. clinic is a ``godsend god·send n. Something wanted or needed that comes or happens unexpectedly. [Alteration of Middle English goddes sand, God's message : goddes, genitive of God, God .'' The 60-year-old Lancaster resident developed an infection after minor back surgery three weeks ago and has to have his bandages changed twice a day - which formerly would have meant driving an hour to the Sepulveda VA Medical Center in the San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. . ``I think it's just wonderful,'' Ang said. ``I can be at the clinic in five minutes rather than drive back and forth to Van Nuys. The nursing staff is just wonderful. They are very friendly. I never have to wait. I can get right in and get things taken care of.'' Medical services for the more than 40,000 veterans in the Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley were been brought closer to home with the opening of the VA outpatient clinic at High Desert Hospital. Veterans no longer have to travel to the Van Nuys hospital for routine care such as blood pressure checks, blood tests and care of wounds. ``It came about because a lot of our patients at Sepulveda come from the Antelope Valley, and one of our goals is to meet the needs of veterans, so we needed to come up with a way to provide medical care up here,'' said Dr. Wendell Ching For the Chinese surname Ching 程, see . For the Chinese dynasty, see . The ching (Thai: ฉิ่ง; sometimes romanized as chhing) are small bowl-shaped finger cymbals of thick and heavy bronze, with a broad rim commonly used in Cambodia and , clinical chief of primary care for the Sepulveda VA Medical Center. Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County and the VA Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, System of Clinics have an agreement in which the county provides space at High Desert Hospital for the veterans' clinic. In turn, the VA provides space at the Sepulveda facility for county-run Olive View Medical Center to operate an outpatient clinic for county patients. High Desert associate administrator Jerry Harris said the clinic is an example of pooling resources to make services available. ``The clinic is again another partnership where neither entity could really do something on our own,'' Harris said. ``It makes a way of stretching limited resources so that you can accomplish a lot more than doing it on your own.'' The Lancaster clinic is located in the Glenchur Ambulatory Care ambulatory care n. Medical care provided to outpatients. ambulatory care, n the health services provided on an outpatient basis to those who can visit a health care facility and return home the same day. building on the campus of High Desert Hospital, on 60th Street West south of Avenue I. The clinic, which opened Oct. 27, treats patients from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. Ching said the clinic has been seeing about 20 to 30 patients a week, and hopes to build that number to between 100 to 200. ``The Sepulveda VA would still be the central site to provide care, but patients could come to (the clinic) for drawing blood, checking blood pressure and blood sugars.'' The outpatient clinic staff includes an administrator, a registered nurse and a nurse practitioner nurse practitioner n. Abbr. NP A registered nurse with special training for providing primary health care, including many tasks customarily performed by a physician. . A social worker also comes up to the clinic once a week and can make visits with patients' who are not able to travel. The clinic can arrange for physician appointments twice a week, and plans to have a psychiatrist come up two times a month, depending on the need. |
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