The Virginia Department of Veterans Services (DVS) operates three veterans care centers, with a fourth under construction. The centers provide high-quality and affordable long-term skilled care, dementia/memory care, and short-term rehabilitative care for Virginia’s veterans. The Roanoke center also has an 8-bed assisted living unit.

The centers are first-class facilities designed to enhance quality of life in a clean, caring, and dignified setting befitting men and women who served out country with honor. DVS operates the centers to provide our residents with exceptional care in a home-like environment that enhances their overall well-being. To do this, DVS

1. Takes a “whole person" approach that focuses not just on physical health care to residents, but also provides recreational, therapeutic, spiritual, and social opportunities that contribute to physical and mental wellness;

2. Operates the care centers as symbols of the Commonwealth’s commitment to her veterans; and

3. Serves the greatest possible number of veterans by maintaining the highest practical facility census.

Nursing homes are the 2nd most regulated industry in nation. Virginia’s veterans care centers are licensed by:

• The Federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), as implemented by the Virginia Department of Health, Office of Licensure & Certification (VDH/OLC);

• The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA); and

• The Virginia Department of Social Services (Roanoke only – assisted living beds).