BY ANDREA PEREZ AND DANIEL A. FLORES
A roundtable discussion Monday with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert McDonald and Texas state leaders aims to discuss the future of the medical school at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley and the possible role it can play addressing the healthcare needs of local veterans.
UTRGV’s Regional Academic Health Center begins the first of a day-long schedule of events at 10 a.m. at the Health Science Center, 2100 Treasure Hills Blvd, Harlingen, where McDonald will meet with Gov. Greg Abbott, Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), U.S. Rep. Rubén Hinojosa, D-McAllen, U.S. Rep. Filemon Vela, D-Brownsville, U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Laredo, and others.
This is McDonald’s first visit to the Valley, which epitomizes the nation’s failure to provide veterans timely access to health care, according to Gov. Greg Abbott’s January letter to President Barrack Obama.
Abbott also wrote that the VA should leverage the investments the state is already making, specifically the UTRGV’s new medical school and state-of-the-art hospital.
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