Private Foundation to Build Treatment Centers

A private foundation plans to construct state-of-the-art treatment centers for brain injuries and psychological disorders at nine of the largest bases in the country.  The Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund will begin construction this month on the first two centers, at Fort Belvoir in Virginia and the Marines’ Camp Lejeune in North Carolina. The centers will allow the Pentagon to expand and modernize treatment of traumatic brain injuries, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and other mental health problems to a degree not currently possible at most Army and Navy hospitals, experts said. (The New York Times, 6/13/12)