Site Chosen For New VA Hospital

{Louisville, Kentucky}...The Department of Veterans Affairs has announced it has chosen the location for a new $883.2 million veterans hospital in Louisville to open in 2018. The site is east of downtown near the Brownsboro Road and Watterson Expressway interchange. U.S. Representative John Yarmuth, a Louisville Democrat, says he has been assured the VA will work to control traffic congestion and other concerns. Political leaders supported the announcement in 2006 that a new hospital would be built, noting complaints that the existing VA medical center is overcrowded and outdated.