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VA, State Break Ground for New Veterans Home
July 6, 2007
Nicholson Joins Schwarzenegger at Site of New $113 Million Facility
WASHINGTON -- Secretary of Veterans Affairs Jim Nicholson today joined
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in a ground-breaking ceremony for a new
California state veterans home on the campus of the Department of
Veterans Affairs (VA) Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System in West Los
Angeles.
VA’s $113.5 million grant to construct the facility is the largest
federal grant ever given for a state veterans home. It will ensure that
California veterans have comfortable housing in a caring community.
“This venture marks another step in the growing partnership between VA
and the state of California,” said Nicholson. “We both seek the same
goals — to take care of the men and women in California who have earned
our respect and gratitude by their military service to our Nation.”
VA transferred ownership of more than 13 acres on its West Los Angeles
campus to the state to build the home. The Greater Los Angeles Ventura
County Veterans Home, as it will be known, will have 396 beds providing
multiple levels of care for aged and disabled veterans.
The home is scheduled to be completed by early 2010. To be eligible for
admission, veterans must be California residents, honorably discharged
from the U.S. military, disabled or at least 62 years of age.
VA and the state recently broke ground on two other new state veterans
home satellite sites in Lancaster and Ventura counties.
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Larry Scott
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