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Yep! Indeed it is.
Several of us contacted the Coos County Veterans advocate about 2007 because that Carlson woman in Roseburg was skewing the numbers. The Advocate thought this was put to rest
because Bandon was central for most of us, even the people that lived in the Coos Bay zip code. Moving the Clinic the far north end of the area served would be ridiculous. While only
19 percent lived in Bandon, most where clustered around Bandon. Now with the clinic in the North Bend everyone drives North, except those that now live closer to Brookings since the clinic
move North further.
Paste from the 2007 article;
"The data showed that 56 percent of the patients using the Bandon clinic are living in Coos Bay or North Bend, while 19 percent are living in Bandon and 25 percent are living elsewhere.
The study also showed many patients living between Bandon and Brookings were driving to the VA clinic in Brookings, located about 11⁄2 hours south of Bandon on U.S Highway 101.
“We are always looking to be more efficient,” Carlson said of the search for available space. “These are taxpayer dollars.”
Area served by Bandon, now North Bend. To the north of this is the Oregon Dunes, not many Vets live there. South of this is closer to Brookings.
We, those that I spoke with and my Provider (doctor) all thought this was put to rest. My provider even moved to Bandon in 2008.
Apparently Carlson continued and the idea made a good shovel ready project. Screw the Vets. The Va was using about half the building
in Bandon, now most of it is a Community Health Clinic.
It's a nice theory, but I'm afraid the timeline is all wrong. They announced April 30, 2008 that the clinic would move (my second link in the prior post) and one year later, the clinic was open in North Bend. The story says "Contractors started working on the 10,000-square-foot clinic in late August." That would be August 2008.
I'll take your word for it that the move was a bad idea, and that Bandon was a better place for the clinic. But it was clearly well underway before Obama became president.
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