State's largest VA clinic breaks ground in Millington

Millington will soon be home to a new, $25 million outpatient clinic for the Department of Veterans Affairs, which will be the largest clinic of its kind in Tennessee and serve veterans from across the Mid-South. City officials are hoping that the 45,000-square-foot clinic will make the city more of a retirement destination for veterans. The facility will have 50 exam rooms and other rooms that will allow 75 to 100 veterans to be served at one time. The state-of-the art facility will be on 4.5 acres of land and include 200 parking spaces. The clinic is expected to be complete by December with a groundbreaking held in January. In addition to creating 200 construction jobs, the facility is expected to generate more than 100 permanent medical and related facility positions. Millington is already home to an estimated 7,500 military, civilian, and central personnel assigned to or who work on the Naval Support Activity Mid-South base in the city.