KING, Wis. (AP) - Gov. Scott Walker has signed a bill to create a new skilled nursing facility in central Wisconsin, adding a new 200-bed building to a facility that dates back more than a century.
The $80 million measure signed Friday will help upgrade the state veterans’ home in King, which serves more than 700 veterans, WLUK-TV reported (https://bit.ly/1jPtVFn ).
“As we have more and more Baby Boom-generation veterans we need more ways to care for them,” Walker said.
The home’s Commandant Jim Knight said current facilities are obsolete, lacking storage room for modern equipment such as electric scooters. The new building will also be equipped to handle a new generation of incoming veterans, he added.
“We recognize now that a lot of the new veterans we get are Vietnam veterans and sociologically they are not the same as the World War II vets or the Korean War vets,” Knight said.
The new building, which will be called John R. Moses Hall, is scheduled to open in 2019.
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Information from: WLUK-TV, https://www.fox11online.com
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