Virtual Living Room Grant Program

The Virtual Living Room Grant Program aims to create welcoming spaces for veterans in rural communities, providing access to advanced medical technologies via telehealth. By establishing these rooms in accessible locations, veterans can connect with VA resources without the burden of travel, ensuring they receive essential care in a comfortable environment.

Create a Place Where Veterans Can Feel at Home
Virtual Living Room is an FRS grant program that blends rural technology, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) resources and local support to encourage veteran use of advanced medical technologies. Virtual Living Room saves veterans travel time and costs while enabling connections to skilled physicians and other providers in the VA medical system such as telehealth and other online resources.
Why Establish a Virtual Living Room in Your Community?
Programs such as the Virtual Living Room is what rural America is about—helping our communities and those who live there. The Virtual Living Room is intended to feel like home, offering a comfortable, safe space to help our veterans simulate the experience they would have while using VA telehealth services at home. By offering a Virtual Living Room in an accessible location, your telco assists the heroes of our nation who may not have the access to broadband services they need to get proper care.

Eligibility

Assess your community’s need. Are you located more than an hour away from a VA clinic or hospital? If yes, then you have a Virtual Living Room need to help your community veterans with accessible VA care. You can establish your Virtual Living Room anywhere. Examples include: a Veterans of Foreign War lodge, American Legion, library, firehouse, church or community center. Your space should be private, have adequate electrical connections to support a computer workstation, lamps and peripherals and have broadband provided by an NTCA member. (Privacy can be enhanced with the use of “white noise” machines; a sound-proof environment is recommended to support the privacy of users.)