New York runs five veterans’ nursing homes providing skilled nursing care and rehabilitation to eligible veterans and their dependents: St. Albans in Jamaica, Batavia, Oxford, the Long Island State Veterans’ Home in Stony Brook, and Montrose. Admission priority goes first to a veteran accompanied by their spouse, then wartime veterans, non-wartime veterans, spouses and unremarried surviving spouses, and Gold Star mothers and fathers.
Contact the veterans’ nursing home you want directly. Use the general admission application for the Oxford, St. Albans, Batavia and Montrose homes, and the separate Long Island State Veterans’ Home application for that home.
The veteran’s discharge paperwork showing at least 30 days of active duty and an honorable discharge, proof that they entered service from New York or were a New York resident for the year before applying, a marriage certificate for a spouse or surviving spouse, and medical documentation showing the need for skilled nursing care.
