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item 8 — the VA's course for this county, and the current facility
The VA has never kept a facility in New Carlisle, and its county course is the clinic's: for most of the federal hand's history, this township's veterans travelled to the VA's hospitals outside the county — the VA Northern Indiana system's facilities at Marion and Fort Wayne — while the county itself had no VA seat. That changed in 2017, when the Department of Veterans Affairs completed construction of its clinic in St. Joseph County, on Mishawaka ground, through Congresswoman Jackie Walorski's advocacy, as the act that later named it recites. On 30 September 2022, Public Law 117-179 (H.R. 8656) designated that clinic the Jackie Walorski VA Clinic — the current facility named and dated, as the floor requires: a VA outpatient clinic in the neighbouring city, twenty minutes from this township, serving its veterans as the federal hand's local seat. The VA's only other presence in this build is the gravesite record in the cemeteries file, and the course is printed at its true combined size: no facility here, ever; the county's clinic across the line since 2017, named for its advocate since 2022.
Sources:
- Public Law 117-179, 30 September 2022 (H.R. 8656, 117th Congress): the designation of the Mishawaka clinic as the Jackie Walorski VA Clinic; the act's findings (construction completed 2017 through Walorski's advocacy).
- This build's Cemeteries (the VA as a gravesite file — its only other appearance in the set).