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Veterans town hall meeting to be held today in Madison
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MADISON - William S. Middleton Memorial Veterans Hospital in Madison is holding its regular quarterly town hall meeting for veterans today.

The quarterly meetings provide an opportunity for veterans, their families and others with a stake in veterans' health care issues to make comments and have their questions answered by hospital executives and staff.

The town hall will be held from noon to 1:30 p.m. in the hospital auditorium.

In addition to hospital executives, the hospital's patient advocate team and other key clinical and administrative staff will be there to work one-on-one with any veterans with issues they wish to have addressed on the spot.

William S. Middleton Memorial Veterans Hospital is a Madison-based, 129-bed facility that provides health care for about 42,000 veterans who live in a 13,600-square mile primary service area comprising 15 counties in south-central Wisconsin and five in northwestern Illinois. The hospital operates an annex primary care clinic in Madison and community-based outpatient clinics in Baraboo, Beaver Dam, Janesville, Freeport and Rockford, Illinois.

The main hospital includes 85 acute care beds and 18 beds in the hospital's residential rehabilitation treatment program, and a community living center provides an additional 26 beds for sub-acute transitional care, rehabilitation and hospice care. The hospital's outpatient clinics have approximately 1,870 visits each business weekday.

The total veteran population in the Madison VA Hospital's primary service area is about 130,000.

For more information about the Madison VA Hospital, visit www.madison.va.gov or www.facebook.com/MadisonVAHospital.