---
kind: "section"
citation: "38 C.F.R. § 59.140"
title: "38"
number: "59.140"
heading: "Nursing home care requirements."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/38/59.140"
---

# §59.140. Nursing home care requirements.


As a condition for receiving a grant and grant funds for a nursing home facility under this part, States must comply with the requirements of this section.

- (a) Resident rooms must be designed and equipped for adequate nursing care, comfort, and privacy of residents. Resident rooms must:
  - (1) Accommodate no more than four residents;
  - (2) Have direct access to an exit corridor;
  - (3) Have at least one window to the outside;
  - (4) Be equipped with, or located near, toilet and bathing facilities (VA recommends that public toilet facilities also be located near the residents dining and recreational areas);
  - (5) Be at or above grade level;
  - (6) Be designed or equipped to ensure full visual privacy for each resident;
  - (7) Except in private rooms, each bed must have ceiling suspended curtains that extend around the bed to provide total visual privacy in combination with adjacent walls and curtains;
  - (8) Have a separate bed for each resident of proper size and height for the safety of the resident;
  - (9) Have a clean, comfortable mattress;
  - (10) Have bedding appropriate to the weather and climate;
  - (11) Have functional furniture appropriate to the resident's needs, and
  - (12) **Have individual closet space with clothes racks and shelves accessible to the resident.**
- (b) Unless determined by VA as necessary to accommodate an increased quality of care for patients, a nursing home project may propose a deviation of no more than 10 percent (more or less) from the following net square footage for the State to be eligible for a grant of 65 percent of the total estimated cost of the project. If the project proposes building more than the following net square footage and VA makes a determination that it is not needed, the cost of the additional net square footage will not be included in the estimated total cost of construction.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 38 U.S.C. 101, 501, 1710, 1742, 8105, 8131-8137.

### Source

Source: 66 FR 33847, June 26, 2001, unless otherwise noted.