Mississippi Administrative Code
Title 25 - Military and Veterans - Veterans' Home Purchase Board
Part 102 - Organization
Chapter 4 - Veterans Nursing Homes
Rule 25-102-4.4 - Admittance Priority

A. Former U.S. Armed Forces Service members with wartime military service receive first preference for admission. Service members with peacetime military service receive second preference for admission. Eligible spouses and un-remarried surviving spouses receive third preference for admission. Applicants will be admitted in preference order; however, if there is no wartime service member ready to accept a bed, peacetime service members may be admitted; if no wartime nor peacetime service members are ready to accept a bed, eligible spouses and eligible un-remarried surviving spouses may be admitted.

B. When a bed in a Mississippi State Veterans Home becomes available, first (1st) priority will be current resident of another Mississippi State Veterans Home or patient in VA Medical Center (to include individuals in nursing homes under VA contract); second (2nd) priority will be veteran currently on Mississippi State Veterans Home waiting list(s); and third (3rd) priority will be new application for admission to a Mississippi State Veterans Home. Individuals on waiting list(s) who decline admission when a bed is available and offered will have their name moved to the bottom of the list. Individual(s) who decline the offer of a bed on two (2) successive occasions will have their name(s) place on an inactive waiting list until they subsequently inform the Board of their desire to once again be placed on the active waiting list. Position on active waiting list will be determined by date Board notified of desire to return to active waiting list.