Lakota Country Times: Clinic for Native veterans in South Dakota shut down

Fort Meade, S.D. - The VA Black Hills Health Care System has announced that a “change in service” is planned for veterans in Eagle Butte, Isabel and Faith. That change consists of the closing of the healthcare clinic serving veterans in those areas.

As a result, the 290 mile roundtrip drive from Eagle Butte to the Black Hills VA health care facility in Sturgis may be a journey some Native American veterans will be forced to take once health care services supported by the Veterans Administration on the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation and nearby areas come to an end on October 1.

C.B. Alexander is associate operations director for the VA Black Hills Health Care System.

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