New San Gabriel Valley Veterans Affairs Clinic Opens

SAN GABRIEL VALLEY -- Eight years after the previous clinic closed in Pasadena, the San Gabriel Valley now has it's a new Veterans Affairs clinic, meaning that area veterans won't have to drive an hour or more anymore to receive VA care.

The San Gabriel Valley Community Based Outpatient Clinic (CBOC) provides basic clinical services that don't require surgery, like physicals and X-rays. San Gabriel Valley vets will also have access to primary care, mental health care and basic laboratory services.

The clinic, which had a "soft opening" on May 20, is scheduled for a July grand opening, with an exact date to be determined. The facility is located at 7 W. Foothill Blvd. in Arcadia.

“I am so excited that, for the first time in almost a decade, we will have a Veterans health clinic right here in the San Gabriel Valley," Rep. Judy Chu (CA-27) said. Chu and others worked for over seven years to bring a new clinic to the area.

"For too long, because of the lack of a veterans health clinic here in the San Gabriel Valley, the district’s over 45,000 U.S. veterans who selflessly served our country were forced to drive long distances to clinics outside of our region just to obtain treatment," she said. "I’m so relieved that a site has been opened and our heroes can begin receiving the care they deserve without having to travel all day.”

The clinic is expected to serve about 2,000 veterans annually.