Connecticut Veterans Residential Services and Healthcare Center

Connecticut runs its own veterans campus at Rocky Hill rather than contracting the function out, and section 27-103(b) defines the two parts in statute: the Veterans Residential Services facility, which provides temporary and other supported residential services, and the Healthcare Center, which is the long-term care facility, federally certified as a skilled nursing or intermediate care facility. The Sgt. John L. Levitow Healthcare Center is the skilled nursing side. It handles acute and chronic medical care across the conditions a long-term care population presents with, including cardiac disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, dementia, stroke, diabetes, Parkinson's disease and multiple sclerosis, along with palliative and respite care. The Residential Services facility is a rehabilitation program with community living rather than a nursing home. It carries employment and education resources, social work, and recovery support, and it is aimed at a veteran who needs a stable base and a route back to independent living. Patriots Landing is the third piece: furnished single-family homes on the campus for homeless or at-risk veterans and their families, with supportive services attached. It exists because a veteran with children cannot use a congregate residential program. Eligibility for all three follows the same rule. Ninety or more days of active duty, not counting active duty for training, or an earlier discharge for a service-connected disability. The discharge must be honorable or general under honorable conditions. The applicant must be a Connecticut resident at the time of application or have been a Connecticut resident when they entered military service. Section 27-103(b) also defines an eligible dependent as a parent, spouse or child of a veteran who has no adequate means of support, and an eligible family member as a parent, sibling, spouse, or child under eighteen whose cooperation in the program is integral to the veteran's treatment. Those definitions let the campus work with a family rather than only with the veteran. No disability rating is required for admission and none sets priority, so a rating filter never hides this entry. What a rating does change is the federal side: VA per diem and a veteran's own VA health care enrolment sit alongside the state facility rather than substituting for it. Section 27-106 gives the Commissioner of Veterans Affairs the duties for both facilities and governs expenditures from the institutional general welfare fund, which is the account that pays for things the operating budget does not reach.