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 a 6-bed assisted living unit, but this level of care is being phased out due to low demand and availability of home-based care.

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 our 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 our veterans; and

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

Nursing homes are heavily regulated. 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).