The short answer is "It changes weekly". The clinic is new, about one year old, and they are still staffing up. They have been having some personnel recruitment problems, I think, so services have been slowly expanding since they opened. Some are way overbooked (i.e. five months to get a new hearing aid AFTER you have the exam and they decide you need a new one). The optical department is up and running but the vendor who provides eye glasses has not opened yet (was scheduled for April and they missed that date) so you still have to go to Ocala or Gainesville to pick up new glasses. Once everything is up and running, the VA Clinic at TV will provide most every service except surgery and some of the more esoteric diagnostic tests. Of course, once you get in the VA system, the VA Hospital in Gainesville (or others around Florida) can do just about anything. I understand it is becoming increasingly hard to get into "the system" lately, especially for treatment for non-retirees or non-service connected disabilities.
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