Coastal Georgia Veterans Care & Access Act
Veterans in coastal Georgia should not have to travel across the state—or be separated from the people who love them—to receive dignified long-term care and support.
As a Marine veteran and candidate for Georgia House District 180, I will introduce legislation requiring Georgia to study the need for improved veterans long-term-care access in coastal Georgia and develop a public, responsible plan for action.
Our veterans kept their promise to America. Georgia must keep its promise to them.
The Problem
Georgia's existing State War Veterans Homes are located in Augusta and Milledgeville. For many veterans and families in Camden County and across coastal Georgia, long-distance travel can make it harder to visit loved ones, participate in care decisions, access services, and remain connected when family support matters most.
Our region has a substantial veteran and military-connected community. Coastal Georgia deserves a serious, transparent assessment of whether veterans have fair access to skilled nursing care, rehabilitation, adult day services, caregiver support, respite care, transportation assistance, and other long-term-care services.
Distance from care is not a minor inconvenience. For a veteran's family, it can mean missed visits, missed conversations, and missed moments that cannot be recovered.
My Legislative Plan
I will introduce the Coastal Georgia Veterans Long-Term Care Feasibility and Access Act.
This proposal will require the Georgia Department of Veterans Service to listen to veterans, caregivers, health-care providers, veteran service organizations, and local communities; study the need; and report publicly on the best path forward.
Study the long-term-care needs of veterans in coastal Georgia.
Measure travel, transportation, and family-access barriers.
Hold public listening sessions with veterans, spouses, caregivers, health-care professionals, and local communities.
Evaluate options such as a State Veterans Home, satellite care facility, veterans care unit, adult day health program, respite-care program, or regional veterans-care coordination center.
Identify potential sites, staffing needs, workforce challenges, costs, and an implementation timeline.
Seek available federal VA grants, per-diem support, and other lawful funding partnerships.
Require public reporting so veterans, families, taxpayers, and lawmakers can see the findings, costs, recommendations, and next steps.
The goal is not to promise a building. It is to document the need, develop a responsible plan, pursue every available federal partnership, and fight for a real solution.
Care Must Come With Accountability
Expanding access must never mean lowering standards. Georgia must protect the safety, dignity, and quality of care for veterans currently receiving care in State Veterans Homes.
Any future veterans-care program serving coastal Georgia must include qualified staffing, patient-safety protections, family involvement, transparent reporting, inspections, and real accountability. Veterans deserve care that puts people before bureaucracy, politics, or profit.
Standards must be maintained. Safety must be protected. Accountability must be real and visible—not buried in a report no one reads.
My Commitment
This is not an empty promise to build a facility before the facts are known. It is a commitment to do the work the right way: listen first, document the need, protect taxpayer dollars, pursue federal partnership, develop a responsible plan, and fight for high-quality veterans care closer to home.
A study is not the finish line. It is the first step toward a real solution.
Our veterans kept their promise to America.
Georgia must keep its promise to them.