VA Signs Lease for Allentown Outpatient Clinic

The Department of Veterans Affairs will add replacement outpatient clinic space supporting the Wilkes-Barre VA Medical Center.

Updated on Nov. 12, 2026 in Military Jobs

Modern low-rise clinic building with a broad glass entrance and brick facade beside a quiet parking lot, with wooded ridges in the distance. — The Department of Veterans Affairs signed a PACT Act lease for an 81,719-square-foot outpatient clinic in Allentown to replace space serving the Wilkes-Barre VA Medical Center. AI Illustration. Upload story photo >

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The Department of Veterans Affairs has signed a PACT Act lease for a new outpatient clinic in Allentown. The lease provides 81,719 net usable square feet of replacement clinic space for the Wilkes-Barre VA Medical Center.

Why it matters

The clinic is intended to increase clinical capacity and give veterans more convenient and timely access to VA care in the Lehigh Valley region. It adds replacement space to a regional system that serves veterans across the area.

The lease covers 81,719 net usable square feet of replacement outpatient space and includes 600 parking spaces. No comparison to the previous facility's footprint or patient volume was provided in the source material.

The players

Department of Veterans Affairs

The federal agency responsible for veterans' health care and benefits across the United States, which signed the lease for the Allentown clinic.

The details

The clinic will deliver integrated primary care, mental health, specialty care and ancillary services in a state-of-the-art, energy-efficient building. It replaces outpatient space for the Wilkes-Barre VA Medical Center under the PACT Act lease.

Winter 2029: construction and facility preparation expected to be completed.
Summer 2029: first patient planned to be seen.

Military Jobs Context

The lease is an implementation action under the PACT Act, the 2022 law that expanded VA health care eligibility for veterans exposed to toxic substances. Facilities like this one are how the VA adds the outpatient capacity needed to absorb the increased demand that the law created.

Veterans in the Lehigh Valley and surrounding areas may gain closer access to primary, mental health and specialty VA care once the clinic opens. The first patients are planned to be seen by summer 2029, so near-term changes to local service are not expected.

The takeaway

Expanding VA outpatient capacity in regional hubs like Allentown is one way the system is positioning to serve veterans closer to home. Veterans planning future care should track the 2029 opening timeline for the new clinic.