The federal hand: Vet Center and the Jackie Walorski VA Clinic

2017–2026 · across the line in Mishawaka and South Bend

The federal hand rests in two buildings. The South Bend Vet Center, at 4727 Miami Street, South Bend, IN 46614, is the VA's community-based counselling arm for the county — readjustment counselling outside the clinic system, with the Vet Center call line at 877-927-8387 — and it is the county's working node for the Stand Down schedule and DAV-coordinated transportation recorded in art-56-7. The clinic across the line is the Jackie Walorski VA Clinic, 1540 Trinity Place, Mishawaka, IN 46545-5006, under VA Northern Indiana Health Care: primary care, mental health, audiology, optometry, urology, prosthetics, laboratory, and pharmacy. Its course is statute-dated. The facility was built as the St. Joseph County VA Clinic and construction was completed by the VA in 2017; it was designated the "Jackie Walorski VA Clinic" by Public Law 117-179 (H.R. 8656, 117th Congress), approved September 30, 2022, whose congressional findings carry the 2017 completion (congress.gov). The VA's own clinic page notes the transportation bridge between the federal hand and the county's veterans: DAV and county VA-director transportation to appointments. The earlier South Bend VA course — the distinct pre-2017 facility history in the city — was not separately documented in the searches run, and it is named as a gap rather than reconstructed: the settling source is the VA Northern Indiana Health Care System's facility history. As of November 2026 both buildings stand active, and they are the federal presence Granger's veterans actually use: the clinic ten minutes east in Mishawaka, the Vet Center south in South Bend, no VA ground in the CDP itself.