Veterans Hospital Celebrates Opening Of South County Clinic

RIVERVIEW, FL -- James A. Haley Veterans' Hospital is hosting a ribbon-cutting ceremony and open house for the new South Hillsborough Outpatient Clinic on Tuesday, May 14 at 12920 Summerfield Crossing Blvd. in Riverview.

Attendees will include congressional representatives and other dignitaries. The ribbon-cutting ceremony is at 10 a.m. and is by invitation only. The open house is from 1 to 3 p.m. and available for anyone to attend.

The ribbon-cutting ceremony marks the completion of the two-year construction project that began in May 2017. The new clinic is 28 miles from James A. Haley Veterans' Hospital's main campus. The 65,000-square-foot facility will serve more than 10,000 veterans living in the Riverview, Ruskin, Sun City Center, Wimauma, Gibsonton and Apollo Beach communities.

It will provide primary care (including women's primary care and home-based primary care), mental health, radiology (including MRI, CT, ultrasound and X-ray), audiology, dietary, laboratory, pharmacy, physical medicine and rehabilitation, respiratory therapy, social work, prosthetics, telehealth and podiatry.

The clinic was constructed by Doster Construction Co. as a 15-year, $44 million contracted lease from Hokanson Companies Inc.

Speakers at the ceremony will include U.S. Rep. Vern Buchanan and Veterans' Health Administration Chief of Staff Larry Connell. Guided tours of the clinic will be offered.