Spanish Peaks Veterans Community Living Center

Care and services

From the community’s website

What Spanish Peaks Veterans Community Living Center says about itself, quoted from its own site. We have not checked these claims against licensing records. Ask about each one on a tour.

• Offers respite or short-term stays. Short-term respite care: Our respite care program offers a short-term stay option for family members who need a break from caregiving. (page, checked Oct 15, 2026)
• Offers hospice care on site or works with hospice providers. End-of-life/hospice services: We're proud to partner with Sangre de Cristo Hospice to provide comfort-oriented care with the dignity and respect our cherished residents deserve. (page, checked Oct 15, 2026)

Paying with Medicaid and other programs

Federal and state programs

• State Veterans Home. Listed as a State Veterans Home (SPANISH PEAKS VETERANS COMMUNITY LIVING CENTER – WALENSBURG) in the national directory that VA links to. Beds listed: Skilled Nursing Care: 100; Secure Memory Care Unit: 20. State Veterans Homes are state-owned; VA surveys them each year and pays part of the cost of care for eligible veterans. (State Veterans Homes (NASVH directory), as of Aug 14, 2024)

Location and nearby care

Nearest hospital with an emergency room

Spanish Peaks Regional Health Center, Walsenburg. 0.1 miles away, straight line.

Nearest Medicare nursing home

Trinidad Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center, Trinidad. 35.0 miles away, straight line.

Nearest home health agency office

Abc Home Health Care Inc, Pueblo. 46.3 miles away, straight line. Agencies travel to clients, so ask which ones serve this address.

Nearest pharmacy

Valley Health Mart Pharmacy. 23.7 miles away, straight line. From OpenStreetMap, which does not list every pharmacy, so one may be closer.

Area

USDA classes ZIP code 81089 as rural (rural area).

Dialysis within 15 miles

062526 Walsenburg Dialysis (Fmc), Walsenburg, 0.1 miles away, straight line (CMS rating 3 of 5 stars)

Hospice

2 Medicare hospices tell CMS they serve ZIP code 81089.

Nearest geriatric medicine practice

San Luis Valley Community Mental Health Center, Inc., Alamosa. 56.8 miles away, straight line. 1 geriatric medicine doctor listed there.

Distances are straight lines from the community, not driving distance. Hospitals, home health, dialysis, hospice and doctors come from CMS provider data (CMS, hospital list updated Jul 22, 2026). Star ratings are CMS’s own.

Emergency and natural hazard risk

Public hazard maps for this location. Ask the community about its emergency plan, its generator and where residents would go in an evacuation.

Flood zone

FEMA has a flood map for this community (effective October 1, 1986), but it is not in FEMA's digital flood map data, so the zone at this address could not be read. FEMA's Map Service Center has the map. (FEMA flood map)

Wildfire risk to homes

In Huerfano County, CO, risk to homes is greater than 57% of communities in Colorado and 80% of communities nationwide. USDA rates the whole county, not this address. (USDA Forest Service, Wildfire Risk to Communities, April 2026)

FEMA National Risk Index

Overall: relatively high. By hazard: inland flooding very high, wildfire relatively high, tornado relatively low, heat wave relatively low, earthquake very low. These are FEMA’s ratings for the census tract, compared with tracts nationwide. (FEMA, December 2025)

A flood zone describes the map at this point, not the building's elevation. In an emergency, follow the local emergency management agency.

What we checked

Every public source we searched for this community. “Nothing on record” means we found no record that matched it. A record can be missed when a name or address differs.