Nc State Veterans Home - Fayetteville

Nc State Veterans Home - Fayetteville sits at 214 Cochran Avenue, right next to the Fayetteville VA Medical Center, and has served North Carolina veterans and their families for many years, though the building has struggled a lot due to its location on terrain that floods easily and the serious water damage that happened during Hurricane Matthew, and after years of talk about closing it, the state decided to recommend renovations, but costs for repairs went over $20 million, so it ended up facing closure with only 17 of the original 85 residents left when the decision came down, even though it once held up to 150 skilled nursing beds and won awards for nursing home care as recently as 2022. Pruitt Health operates this facility in partnership with the North Carolina Department of Military and Veterans Affairs, and people have known it for its skilled nursing care, short-term rehabilitation for those moving between the hospital and home, and intermediate care for veterans who need constant nursing help. Over the years, it's offered mental health care, drug addiction rehabilitation, outpatient services, adult daycare, respite care, personal care, developmental therapy, and other support for both veterans and some qualifying family members, all with a goal to respect the service of the people who lived there, and folks have called it a caring place, even though the building itself became harder and harder to keep up. The facility's history of possible closure and its commitment to veterans made it part of bigger plans to replace aging buildings, and through all of it, an administrator named Whitney Bell oversaw the day-to-day care and operations. While Nc State Veterans Home - Fayetteville will stop serving residents after February 1, its story stands out for the services it offered and the unique problems it faced because of its location and age.