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Regional partnership warns Fort Leonard Wood hospital could be reduced to clinic, raising mission and care concerns
Summary
At the Jan. 27 Lebanon City Council meeting, Dorsey Newcomb gave an update on the regional partnership with Fort Leonard Wood, reporting that the Defense Health Agency is considering downgrading a planned $400 million hospital to a clinic and outlining other recent developments affecting the installation.
Dorsey Newcomb, representing the regional SOP partnership, told the Lebanon City Council on Jan. 27 that the Defense Health Agency (DHA) has been considering downgrading a planned $400,000,000 hospital at Fort Leonard Wood to a clinic — a change he and partners fear would harm the installation's mission and the care available to beneficiaries.
Newcomb said the group had alerted members of Missouri's congressional delegation and helped secure letters to the Defense Department. "This would certainly, if this happened, would certainly negatively impact Fort Leonard Wood's mission without question, and…
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