40 rooms added to veterans care center
Jeremy M. Lazarus | 7/14/2015, 11:48 a.m. | Updated on 7/14/2015, 11:48 a.m.
A state-supported nursing home for veterans opened 40 new private rooms Wednesday at its location in South Side.
Gov. Terry McAuliffe joined in celebrating the expansion that will allow the Sitter & Barfoot Veterans Care Center to provide long-term care to 200 ailing veterans.
The new addition has been dubbed the Richmond wing of the nursing home that sits on the campus of the McGuire Veterans Administration Medical Center.
The new space “will allow our Commonwealth to provide services to even more men and women who served and sacrificed to keep our country safe,” the governor said.
Sitter & Barfoot offers rehabilitation services as well as long-term care. It also has a wing for veterans with dementia.
The center opened in 2008 and is one of two state nursing homes for veterans. The other is a 240-bed facility in Roanoke.
This year, the General Assembly approved the governor’s plan to open two more facilities, one in Northern Virginia and the other in Hampton Roads.
