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The Harry S. Truman Memorial Veterans' Hospital is a Veterans Administration (VA) hospital located in Columbia, Missouri. Located by the University of Missouri campus, the Truman Memorial VA Hospital has a coverage area of 43 counties in Missouri and Illinois and serves more than 38,000 veterans inpatient and 314,000 veterans outpatient. It is affiliated with the University of Missouri School of Medicine. The medical center provides primary care, surgical, mental health, medical, geriatric, transitional, rehabilitative, and hospice services. The Truman VA has achieved some of the best scores in the state of Missouri for JCAHO Quality Reporting.HistoryThe Truman VA building was constructed between 1966 and 1972 at a cost of $15 million. In 1975, by an act of Congress, it was legally named Harry S. Truman Memorial Veterans' Hospital.The Truman VA is the only hospital in the Heartland Network — including Missouri, Kansas, and parts of Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky and Arkansas — that has a referral center for open heart surgery. At least 250 heart surgeries per year are performed at the hospital.In 1995 a new ambulatory care building was built, adding 106000sqft onto the north side of the hospital. The two-story ambulatory care center was dedicated March 20, 1998, and cost $15.1 million.