South Jersey veterans have miles to go for better care

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Phil Cinquina, who served in the Army in the 1940s, makes it a priority to maintain his health by working out several times a week.

Cinquina, 89, has been more fortunate than other members of his American Legion Post in Weymouth Township. He said he can’t understand why veterans with health problems can’t get help locally.

Instead, to visit a VA hospital, local veterans have to travel by bus or van hours away to Pennsylvania, Delaware or northern New Jersey.

“In Northfield, you have to catch the bus, and it’s a two-hour ride to the hospital. They will go on the bus together. Everybody has to wait until everyone on the bus is done (seeing a doctor), and then it comes back,” Cinquina said.


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