The State Veterans Home — Assisted Living and Skilled Nursing, and Dependents Are Admitted Too
The home outside Buffalo runs two levels of care: assisted living, the original domiciliary, and skilled nursing in three single-room cottages on the same grounds, opened in October 2022. For the assisted living side the admission test is economic — being unable to earn a living, or having no adequate means of support. Dependents of qualified veterans are admitted, and non-veterans may be admitted when the home is under 90% full. Fees are set on ability to pay.
Verified August 27, 2026
What this benefit is
The home outside Buffalo runs two levels of care: assisted living, the original domiciliary, and skilled nursing in three single-room cottages on the same grounds, opened in October 2022. For the assisted living side the admission test is economic — being unable to earn a living, or having no adequate means of support. Dependents of qualified veterans are admitted, and non-veterans may be admitted when the home is under 90% full. Fees are set on ability to pay.
What it's worth: Assisted living or skilled nursing, with room, meals, laundry, nursing, social services, activities and weekday transport in one monthly maintenance fee set on ability to pay
- The home operates two communities: assisted living, which is the original domiciliary, and skilled nursing.
- The skilled nursing facility is three single-room cottages built on the Greenhouse model, on the Veterans' Home grounds at 700 Veterans' Lane, Buffalo. It opened in October 2022.
- Fees are stated as based on an individual's ability to pay rather than as a published rate.
- The list of what the maintenance fee covers is given as an inclusive list, not an exhaustive one.
- Admission runs through a pre-admission packet with the DD-214, a history and physical, income verification and Medicare A, B and D, followed by a trial stay.
Who is entitled to it
- Your discharge supports an application.
- You are in this state.
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How to claim it
- 1Ring the home and ask for the pre-admission packet. Return it with the DD-214, a recent history and physical, income verification and proof of Medicare A, B or D.
- 2Read the admission test carefully, because it is not a medical one: you must be unable to earn a living by reason of wounds, disease, old age or other infirmities, or have no adequate means of support, or already be domiciled here.
- 3Residency is satisfied by valid in-state residence at the time of application, or by an intent to reside here permanently if you have been here less than a year. Being in transit, or here seasonally, does not count.
- 4A dependent of a qualified veteran may be admitted where admission is deemed proper. Veterans are preferred first and their accompanying dependents second.
- 5Expect a trial visit before any decision. That step exists for both sides, and the facility can then admit, ask for more, or decline.
- 6Ask what your monthly maintenance fee would be — it is set on ability to pay, so there is no rate to look up.
- Form
- Pre-admission packet
- File with
- The state veterans home, outside Buffalo
- Documents you will need
- dd214 · va benefit summary letter
- No renewal
- Once granted it does not need renewing.
Sources
- authority · published policyVeterans Commission — state veterans benefits handbook: the state veterans home, eligibility, admissions process and monthly fees
Why only one source type: The veterans commission's own handbook is the only source that could be read: the health department host that operates the home returns 403 to every request, in a browser as well as a fetch.
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