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Nursing Home/Community Living Centers Plan provides placement in nursing
- Have a Service-connected disability rating of 70 percent or more;
- Are unemployable or have an official rating of "permanent and total
disabled;"
- Have a service-connected disability that is clinically determined to
require nursing home care;
- Are a Nonservice-connected veteran or a ""zero percent, noncompensable,
Service-connected"" veteran who requires nursing home care for any
Nonservice-connected disability and who meets income and asset criteria;
or
- Need care, if space and resources are available. Other Veterans are
homes, when clinically indicated, may be available either through VA's
evaluated on a case-by-case basis, with priority given to
Service-connected veterans and those who need care for post-acute
rehabilitation, respite, hospice, geriatric evaluation and management, or
spinal cord injury.
Community Living Centers (CLC) or contract nursing homes. The mission of
the VA Community Living Centers (VACLC) program (formerly known as VA
Nursing Home Care Units) is to provide compassionate care to Veterans
with chronic stable conditions - those who suffer from dementia, who
require rehabilitation or short-term specialized services (such as
respite or intravenous therapy), or who need comfort and care at the end
of life. A Veteran is eligible for VA nursing home care if he or she is:
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