Facility Planning – Facility Selection: Part 1 & 2 In health care there are many different facility types; one in particular is an outpatient clinic. Outpatient clinics are facilities which provide medical care and treatments that do not require an overnight stay in a medical facility or hospital. An outpatient care can be managed in a medical office or even in a hospital, but mostly services are provided in a medical office or in an outpatient surgery center (About Careers, 2014). One facility in particular is the Clarksville Community Based Outpatient Clinic located in Clarksville, Tennessee. The Clarksville outpatient clinic first opened up in the year 2000 and started providing services for all veterans in the Kentucky and also Tennessee areas. This is a most active clinic, with close proximity to the Fort Campbell base, for the Operation Iraqi freedom/ Operation Enduring freedom returnees (Department of V.A., 2014). The Clarksville Community Based Outpatient Clinic provides primary care as well as mental health services to all veterans of the area. Also provided in the facility are laboratories for blood drawings and prescription services are provided as well. This particular outpatient clinic has recently undergone a new renovation this year to add on more patient rooms to recruit new patients as well as more employees to serve all of the individuals of the clinic (Department of V.A., 2014). The Clarksville veteran’s population had been served by the Department of Veterans Affairs Tennessee Valley health care system outpatient clinic for many of years and has recently been converted to a new location. The new and improved outpatient clinic has been moved to a newly 10,000 square foot facility which has recently reopened and continues to offer mental health service, primary care, and laboratory services on the site, it also includes teleretinal and