MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. (WCSC) – Veterans will now be able to make their way to a new Ralph H. Johnson Veterans Affairs Health Care System clinic in Mount Pleasant.
“A VA service center here for primary care really just sort of completes the picture for Mount Pleasant,” Mount Pleasant Mayor Will Haynie said.
Haynie said this clinic was what this town needed because of its patriotic history.
“Just this is who we are as a town in Mount Pleasant. We’re very patriotic, as I said with Patriots Point Medal of Honor,” Haynie said.
With today’s ribbon-cutting, Mount Pleasant entered a new era for the veteran community.
“Thousands of veterans that live east of the Cooper both in Mount Pleasant and the whole East Cooper community and for them to have this primary care health right here and whole health in Mount Pleasant. Where they don’t have to go downtown, they don’t have to worry about parking, they don’t have to worry about flooding, is huge for our veterans of our town, and there are between four and five thousand that we know of now, and that number is going up every day,” Haynie said.
The VA’s mission is to be available to all veterans, and that’s why they established the new clinic in Mount Pleasant.
“The VA is all about accessibility. So opening this clinic in Mount Pleasant, where so many veterans live, is about bringing care to where they are and to make it easier, accessible, and to give them better care,” Wayne Capps, chief of public affairs for the Ralph H. Johnson VA Medical Center, said.
With it being located in a central location in Mount Pleasant, it’ll be more convenient for patients coming from nearby locations.
Capps said that this space will offer not only primary care but also whole health.
“Opening up this clinic, there was a need to bring primary care into the Mount Pleasant area. We’re also bringing in whole health things like chiropractic, massage therapy, things of that nature that can help the whole veteran concept,” Capps said.
Capps said that the whole health concept is very sought out and the VA wants to serve veterans as a whole.
