LAKE NONA – About 50 veterans, union workers and their supporters gathered Wednesday at the construction site of the Veterans Affairs Medical Center to protest what they called a campaign by … ...

The VA hospital in Lake Nona cost some $620 million to get off the ground, spreads on 1.2 million square feet and is starting to become fully functional. Skip to content. All Sections.

The building, which is adjacent to Lake Baldwin’s outpatient clinic, closed two years ago when the new 60-bed domiciliary at Lake Nona Medical Center VA opened.

About 12 percent of veterans are women, and that number is about 20 percent in the Department of Defense, he said, adding that the Women’s Center in Lake Nona’s VA is a breakthrough.