In researching my next topic for Blog number three, I ran across a website discussing Veterans Homes. This website caught my eye especially since I myself am a Veteran and my husband is currently still serving in the Army today. Currently in Florida there are six Veterans home.
What are Veteran's Homes?
Veterans homes are long term care facilities that provided a variety kind of care. In most cases this a partnership between the Department of Veterans Affairs and states. They have short term care mainly for rehabilitative services after surgery or those awaiting placement in a community nursing home. Short term care is defined by 90 days or less. Care is also available for those that require care over 90 days. Those individuals must met a specific set of criteria such as prolonged wound care, ventilator and respiratory care, and spinal cord injury care for example. Veterans home also provide care, short term and long term, for those needing some sort of dementia care. Palliative Care is also available in some Veterans Homes. The range of services in State Veterans homes vary (VA)
Who is Eligible?
In the State of Florida those veterans who have been residents of Florida for over a year prior to the date of needing care and have qualifying wartime or peacetime experience. Those Veterans with service related injuries needing long term care and those veterans unable to pay for nursing home care will be first priorities (FL Vets)
Disadvantages?
Veterans homes do have some disadvantages such as unlike its civilian counterparts the application process is typically a long one followed by a waiting list. Those needing care for alzheimer's usually have the longest waiting list. There also is a certain set of criteria that has to be met before one can even be considered such a low income Veterans with limited means (VeteransBenefits).
Who covers the cost?
In state veterans homes the Department of Veterans Affairs pays the state a per diem. To make up the remaining costs some states charge a flat rate monthly per diem to residents and other have a sliding scale based on economic means and rely on other subsidies to cover the rest.
Veterans homes are a priceless benefits to those veterans who have served our country proudly. These state veterans homes are held to the same state guidelines as those private and other state nursing homes.
http://www.floridavets.org/nursing/nursing_rq.asp
http://www1.va.gov/geriatricsshg/docs/VA-NHCU.pdf
http://www.veteransbenefitsmo.com/Articles/state_veterans_homes.htm
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