VA hospital that once treated Civil War veterans could close

This photo taken April 13, 2015, shows the Battle Mountain Sanitarium campus, top left, a scenic escape perched atop a bluff in the remote Black Hills of South Dakota that’s become a haven known for healing the nation’s vete… . This photo taken April 13, 2015, shows a bright and open hallway at Battle Mountain Sanitarium, a historic VA facility in Hot Springs, S.D. While Black Hills VA officials has proposed shuttering the hospital, many of the reg… .