HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WHNT) — Veterans across North Alabama have been seeking VA healthcare options closer to home for years, and that prayer may soon be answered.

Primary care needs are currently treated in Huntsville, but when veterans need more advanced care, they must drive to a VA hospital in either Birmingham or Nashville.

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"When you talk two hours down and two hours back, that's half a day that you're spending either on the road or in the office that you could be doing something else," Veteran Bobby Lee said.

Birmingham VA Executive Director Dr. Oladipo Kukoyi exclusively told News 19's Peyton Newman that a VA Specialty Care Clinic will open in the coming

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