WASHINGTON – To ensure high-quality health services for Colorado’s veterans at the state home at Homelake, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is awarding a grant of up to $5.2 million for an upgrade to the home’s resident support and activity areas.
“Our federal-state partnership helps to provide comfortable and safe housing in a caring community for Colorado veterans who have served their country,” said Secretary of Veterans Affairs Dr. James B. Peake.”
The estimated total cost of the project at the ColoradoStateVeteransCenter at Homelake is $7.9 million, with VA’s grant totaling 65 percent of the overall cost.
Colorado's Office of State and Veterans Nursing Homes will construct life safety improvements to the residential domiciliary cottages, implement energy-related improvements on the campus and complete foundation stabilization of the historic chapel building.
Last year, VA spent $1.8 billion in Colorado on behalf of the state’s 428,000 veterans. VA provided more than 640,000 outpatient visits and inpatient admissions in VA facilities in Colorado. The state-run veterans homes in Colorado supplement and extend these federal services.
For more information about the state's veterans homes and Colorado services for veterans, visit dmva.state.co.us/page/va.
