Community Nursing Home (CNH)

The Community Nursing Home (CNH) database contains a list of all Community Nursing Home facilities under local contract to Veterans Health Administration (VHA). CNH facilities are not managed by VA. Instead, CNH facilities are private or public facilities licensed by the state where they provide the patient services. Each day all Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VAMC) that have a contract with a CNH enter information about the CNH into the Fee Basis module of Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture. This information is sent via MailMan to the VA Austin Information Technology Center where it is collected in a queue. A quarterly batch process is run on the queue. VAMCs that have sent invalid data or VAMCs that have contracts and did not send data are notified. Valid data is processed and used to update the database. Quarterly reports are sent to the CNHs, VAMCs, Veterans Integrated Service Networks (VISNs), Geriatrics & Extended Care Strategic Health Care Group, and VA Central Office (VACO).

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identifier VA-VHA-GER-001
issued 2017-07-26
landingPage https://www.data.va.gov/d/fqc6-3qw6
language {en-US}
license https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
modified 2020-12-01
programCode {029:055}
publisher Department of Veterans Affairs
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rights Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, protected health information.
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Groups
  • AmeriGEOSS
  • National Provider
  • North America
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  • amerigeoss
  • ckan
  • community-living-center
  • contract
  • extended-care
  • fee
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  • geoss
  • geriatrics
  • national
  • non-va-care
  • north-america
  • nursing-home
  • patient
  • united-states
  • va
  • veteran
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maintainer VHA Open Data
maintainer_email vhaopendata@va.gov
metadata_created 2025-11-21T15:17:02.266254
metadata_modified 2025-11-21T15:17:02.266258
notes <p>The Community Nursing Home (CNH) database contains a list of all Community Nursing Home facilities under local contract to Veterans Health Administration (VHA). CNH facilities are not managed by VA. Instead, CNH facilities are private or public facilities licensed by the state where they provide the patient services. Each day all Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VAMC) that have a contract with a CNH enter information about the CNH into the Fee Basis module of Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture. This information is sent via MailMan to the VA Austin Information Technology Center where it is collected in a queue. A quarterly batch process is run on the queue. VAMCs that have sent invalid data or VAMCs that have contracts and did not send data are notified. Valid data is processed and used to update the database. Quarterly reports are sent to the CNHs, VAMCs, Veterans Integrated Service Networks (VISNs), Geriatrics &amp; Extended Care Strategic Health Care Group, and VA Central Office (VACO).</p>
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title Community Nursing Home (CNH)