Mission
HOUSING AMERICA’S HEROES
One of the most pressing challenges our country faces today is ensuring that all veterans and first responders and their spouses have access to safe affordable senior healthcare housing.
ALFs, PTSD, Micro Hospitals, Memory Care, Independent Stand-Alone Facilities and Planned Unit Developments.
THE MISSION IS TO RAISE MONEY TO ASSIST VETERANS WITH HOUSING AND CARE EXPENSES
Fundraising efforts will focus on federal individual and corporations that have displayed a commitment to veterans’ interests. With the help of our supporters, advisors, and directors we can launch significant fundraising efforts in Florida and around the country.
While this is the primary stated goal of the Foundation, we feel there is also a need to focus on Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation, PTSD, Alcohol and Drug Recovery, Interim Hospital Care, and Telemed, as well as other Medical Technologies that can assist veterans.
Fundraising efforts will focus on federal individual and corporations that have displayed a commitment to veterans’ interests. With the help of our supporters, advisors, and directors we can launch significant fundraising efforts in Florida and around the country.
While this is the primary stated goals of the Foundation.
AVHF UNDERSTANDS THE PROBLEMS AND SHORTCOMINGS AT THE VA
22 Vets commit suicide every day, 10 die due to VA negligence and or nosocomial infection.
WE NEED MORE PTSD AND INTERIM HOSPITAL CARE NOW! THIS IS OUR EXPANDED MISSION
AVH seeks government, private capital, and development partners
nationally to assist us in developing independent housing and care facilities with delivered medical services.
We will also be looking at logical urban and rural building conversions that fit our financial and delivery criteria.
The Case for Helping Veterans
AVHF has drawn heavily from a talented and committed group of professionals with over 30 years of subject expertise.
VETERANS HOUSING CHALLENGE
There are over 23 million Veterans!
Nearly 4 million veteran households pay more than 30% of income for housing. More than 1.5 million of these households pay more than 50% of income for housing, despite having access to VA loans and other assistance. Vets with severe housing cost burden are more likely to have a disability than other veterans. Among veterans, women are more likely to experience severe cost burden than men.
VETERANS’ SPECIAL NEEDS
26% of post – 9/11 veterans and 14% of all veterans have a service-connected disability. Between 2000 and 2011, more than 233,000 service members had a traumatic brain injury. 25% of veterans aged 18 to 30 have a substance use disorder. Permanent housing is the #1 unmet need identified by homeless veterans. Aid and Attendance program is 24000 per yr. with 14000.
TYPICAL COST OF ASSISTED LIVING RESIDENCE
When a veteran can no longer live on his own or with others, assisted living is a logical and necessary option. The national median monthly rate for a one-bedroom unit in an assisted living facility is $38,000 per year according to the 2014 Cost of Care Survey released by Genworth Financial Inc. of Richmond, Virginia. The cost has been rising by an average of 4.3% annually over the past five years. The typical assisted living resident has an income of about $19,000. There are a variety of sources for veterans to fund their medical expenses.
MEDICAID
Many vets mistakenly believe that Medicare will cover the cost of assisted living.
Medicare isn’t designed to pay for long-term care.
“At the end of the day, your options for paying for long-term care in this country are two: You pay (completely) out of pocket or you pay out of pocket until you get to the point where you impoverish yourself and then go on Medicaid,” says David Kyllo, executive director of the National Center for Assisted Living, or NCAL, in Washington, D.C.
MEDICAID WAIVER
While most states have some funding for assisted living, Alabama, Kentucky, Louisiana, Pennsylvania, South Carolina and West Virginia do not have such coverage. Unlike nursing home care, the cost of assisted living is only partially covered under Medicaid, and not all facilities accept Medicaid patients. Some state programs cover only certain types of costs and medical conditions.
The bottom line is that we have approximately 3 million veterans who have difficulty in coming up with the funds for even modest living quarters. This is the worthy group that American Veteran Homes is trying to help.
