WASHINGTON, Oct. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has awarded a grant of $737,000 to the state of New York for improvements to the State Veterans Home in Stony Brook.
"This grant honors our commitment to care for the men and women of New York who have served in uniform," said the Honorable R. James Nicholson, Secretary of Veterans Affairs. "Our federal-state partnership helps to provide comfortable housing for some New York State veterans."
The $737,000 grant will pay up to 65 percent of the cost to renovate utilities at the Stony Brook facility. Overall cost of the project is estimated at $1.1 million.
In addition to the Stony Brook facility, New York State operates veterans homes in Oxford, St. Albans, Batavia and Montrose. Further information about the state veterans homes is available on the Internet at http://nysvets.org.
In fiscal year 2004, VA spent more than $3.1 billion in New York to serve nearly 1.2 million veterans who live in the state. VA operates 13 major medical centers in New York State, with outpatient clinics and Vet Centers in many locations.
U.S. Department of Veterans AffairsCONTACT: U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Public Affairs,+1-202-273-6000
Web site: http://www.va.gov/http://nysvets.org/
