Veterans Affairs medical centers in the Mountain State will not see proposed reductions in services, U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., announced Monday.
The senator said he and several other colleagues have compromised to kill the AIR Act by not appointing committee members. The Asset and Infrastructure Review Commission would have been tasked with reviewing recommendations to reduce services at three West Virginia VA centers.As part of an AIR report issued in March, reductions in services provided were recommended at the Beckley VA Medical Center, the Louis A. Johnson Medical Center in Clarksburg and the Hershel “Woody” Williams VAMC in Huntington.