[20201001]IF11656_州退伍军人之家.pdf

https:/crsreports.congress.gov October 1, 2020State Veterans HomesState Veterans Homes (SVHs) are state-owned and state-operated facilities that provide nursing home care, domiciliary care, and adult day health care to eligible veterans, spouses, and Gold Star parents (parents of a child who died while serving in the armed forces). The SVH Program is a federal-state partnership whereby the Veterans Health Administration in the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) provides federal assistance to SVHs in three ways: 1. VA provides grants to states to construct, acquire, remodel, or modify homes (38 U.S.C. 8131-8138). 2. VA provides per diem payments to reimburse states for each eligible veteran receiving care in homes that are recognized and certified by the VA (38 U.S.C. 1741 and 1745). 3. VA provides payments to states for the hiring and retention of nurses (38 U.S.C. 1744). VA supports three different types of SVH programs in 156 facilities, which may be co-located together in one facility: Nursing Homes Programs (149 facilities): provide accommodation of convalescents or other persons who are not acutely ill and not in need of hospital care, but who require skilled nursing ca