Louisville’s new VA Medical Center sets new standard for accessibility as it starts taking shape | News from WDRB [Video]

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — Louisville’s new VA Medical Center is starting to take shape.

The ground surrounding the hospital is rocky, muddy and wet, but that’s evidence of an ever-changing area around U.S. 42 and Brownsboro Road.

“It’s kind of really neat to see this thing as it progresses through,” Jayson McDonald, with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, said. “It’s constantly progressing.”

Crews broke ground on the hospital in 2021.

“It’s never a dull moment,” McDonald said.

Three years later, drivers on the Watterson Expressway can now see the bones of the project in place.

“Everything you’re seeing out there right now, that’s the structure as is. So now we’re just trying to get all the inside complete and done,” McDonald said.

Inside the exterior walls, spaces for exam rooms, clinics, surgeries, and even the lobby are also taking shape.

“If you are patient driving yourself, you come in this way. If you were coming in by ambulance, you would come in the backside,” …