{"id":303418,"date":"2014-06-06T11:49:49","date_gmt":"2014-06-06T16:49:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=303418"},"modified":"2014-06-08T07:48:09","modified_gmt":"2014-06-08T12:48:09","slug":"va-to-lease-two-texas-facilities-under-senate-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=303418","title":{"rendered":"VA to Lease Two Texas Facilities under Senate Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (AP) &#8211; The Veterans Affairs Department would lease two Texas facilities, including one in Tyler, under a Senate deal to expand veterans&#8217; access to government-paid medical care.    The VA now has 150 hospitals and 820 clinics nationwide. The bill authorizes the VA to lease 26 new health facilities in 18 states, including community-based outpatient clinics in Tyler and Lubbock. The plan also would consolidate leases of facilities in San Antonio and create a research center in Houston.   The framework agreement was announced Thursday on the Senate floor by Veterans Affairs Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (AP) &#8211; The Veterans Affairs Department would lease two Texas facilities, including one in Tyler, under a Senate deal to expand veterans&#8217; access to government-paid medical care. The VA now has 150 hospitals and 820 clinics nationwide. The bill authorizes the VA to lease 26 new health facilities in 18 states, including community-based outpatient &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=303418\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">VA to Lease Two Texas Facilities under Senate Deal<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-303418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-11 06:56:03","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=303418"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":303419,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303418\/revisions\/303419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=303418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=303418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=303418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}