![]() ![]() The first segregated federal Veterans hospital opened under the Veterans Bureau on February 12, 1923, in Tuskegee, Alabama. Native Americans who served in World War I were authorized, for the first time in history, to apply for American citizenship due to a law enacted on November 6, 1919, making them eligible for full Veterans benefits, including health care. ![]() Tuberculosis and neuro-psychiatric hospitals opened to accommodate Veterans with respiratory or mental health problems. World War I was the first fully mechanized war and soldiers exposed to mustard gas and other chemicals required specialized care. The Veterans Bureau and National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers worked cooperatively to provide medical care to all Veterans at this time. On August 9, 1921, Congress created the Veterans Bureau by combining three World War I Veterans programs into one bureau. They provided medical care and long-term housing for thousands of Civil War Veterans The first National Home, now VA’s oldest hospital, opened near Augusta, Maine, on November 1, 1866. Colored Troops-were eligible for admittance. ![]() The National Homes were often called “soldiers’ homes” or “military homes.” Initially only Civil War soldiers and sailors who served honorably with the Union forces-including U.S. The National Homes housed ten of thousands of Veterans. Army and Navy for Veterans of the Regular military forces, were very small and housed only up to 300 men each. Two earlier soldiers’ homes, operated by the U.S. The asylum was the first of its kind in the world to provide civilian medical care to Veterans of temporary volunteer forces. On March 3, 1865, a month before the Civil War ended, President Abraham Lincoln authorized the first-ever national soldiers’ and sailors’ asylum to provide medical and convalescent care for discharged members of the Union Army and Navy volunteer forces. Eastern Branch National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers in Togus, Maine, 1891. ![]()
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