A proposed restructuring of the Department of Veterans Affairs’ medical facilities would create a new medical center near Camden and a new clinic in Toms River. The Paterson clinic would close, however, with patients instead treated in Hackensack. And veterans with spinal cord injuries would have to travel to a medical center in the Bronx instead of being treated in East Orange. Those changes would be part of a massive overhaul of the VA health care system that agency officials said would better reflect the needs of current veterans and build facilities where they’re living now. “VA came to th…
