Veterans Home of California Yountville

The grounds of the facility include the 1,214 seat Lincoln Theater (home of Symphony Napa Valley, Orchestra Institute Napa Valley as well as a robust education program), a 9-hole golf course, baseball stadium, a swimming pool, an onsite U.S. Post Office, and a military base exchange branch store.

In 1877, the Grand Army of the Republic first secured land in San Francisco for a veterans home; however, the property was deemed not appropriate.

At the time the state took over the home, it had an estimated value of $320,000 and consisted of 55 steam-heated buildings with electric lighting, running water and a sewer system.

The grounds also had a successful dairy, hog farm, and chicken ranch and was the home for 800 veterans of the Mexican, Civil, and Indian wars.

Col. Nelson M. Holderman, a World War I veteran and recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor, was appointed commandant of the home in 1919.

The home's annual operating budget is $47 million, half of which is provided by the California general fund; the remainder by other sources, including federal reimbursements and member fees.

The Home, nestled in the verdant Wine Country of northern California, also houses the alternate seat of government for the governor's office and shares that duty with another state facility at Fresno.

[6] The film documented the work of The Pathway Home, a residential treatment program meant to help post-9/11 veterans struggling with PTSD and TBIs reintegrate into society.

The Napa Valley Register reported that the suspect had been discharged recently from a veterans' treatment program at The Pathway Home.