Affiliated with the University of Rochester School of Medicine, it provides secondary care and operates clinics in Elmira and Wellsville, New York; and Coudersport and Wellsboro, Pennsylvania.

It initially housed disabled New York veterans of the American Civil War, but, as the men aged, it became largely a geriatric facility.

[4] Adjacent to the home is Bath National Cemetery, where many of its residents are buried.

The federal government took over operations in 1929, and renamed it the Bath Branch of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers.

The U.S. Veterans Administration was created in 1930, and the hospital and its grounds were deeded over to it in 1932.