Families of vets will get ‘home away from home’ on VA Medical Center campus
Dana Kizer-Shands, president of the board of the Tennessee Fisher House Foundation, speaks during a press conference announcing a Fisher House will be built in Memphis. The Fisher House will provide temporary accommodations for families and caregivers of veterans receiving care at the Memphis VA Medical Center. (Brad Vest/Special to The Daily Memphian)
Fisher House, on the campus of the Memphis VA Medical Center, will provide no-cost accommodations for 16 families or veteran caregivers. The $9 million project is expected to open next fall.
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Aisling Mäki covers health care, banking and finance, technology and professions. After launching her career in news two decades ago, she worked in public relations for almost a decade before returning to journalism in 2022.
As a health care reporter, she’s collaborated with The Carter Center, earned awards from the Associated Press and Society of Professional Journalists and won a 2024 Tennessee Press Association first-place prize for her series on discrepancies in Shelby County life expectancy by ZIP code.
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