UPDATED 1:10 p.m. Aug. 14, 2026, to add statement from new management company.
A new company will take over care for the approximately 150 elderly and infirm war veterans living at the Georgia War Veterans Home, a state-owned nursing home in Milledgeville. Last year, The Current GA uncovered allegations of understaffing and potential safety issues by the previous management company.
The Georgia Department of Veterans Services has signed a new contract with an Anderson, South Carolina-based company which operates veterans homes in South Carolina, Alabama, and Texas. Health Management Resources Governmental Service, LLC won the tender, but the previous management company, STGi, appealed the decision and ultimately lost. HMR will take over this fall.
“HMR is honored and excited for the opportunity to join the Veterans, families, staff, and community who make the Georgia War Veterans Home a home.” said a statement from HMR’s communications office. “Our team is focused on the preparation and processes necessary to support a successful transition as we keep our attention on the Home and the community that we are proud to now be a part of.”
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Georgia opened the tender for bids in December, shortly after The Current published stories revealing a pattern of systemic problems at the state-owned home and the deficiencies cited by the U.S. Veterans Administration inspectors about the facility.
The veteran whom The Current featured in the six-month investigation, 90-year-old Haskell Sewell, has since died.
The Current’s six-month investigation was based on interviews with seven staff members who worked directly in patient care there and veterans families, as well as records and documents and showed the following:
- An estimated 50% of staff newly hired by STGi in 2025 had quit by year’s end.
- Specialized nurses assigned to the Memory Care Unit at the facility were frequently reassigned from that floor to plug staffing holes on other floors, leaving the most vulnerable residents without proper levels of trained caregivers.
- Nurses without licenses to dispense medications have given agitated residents psychotropic drugs not authorized by the attending physician, as a way to lessen workloads for staff.
- While the contract with the state demands two fulltime licensed social workers, a key part of a care team who help the psychological well-being of residents, the facility hired one without the required license.
STGi did not have any experience with skilled nursing homes or memory care facilities before Georgia awarded it the Milledgeville contract in 2024, but it now operates veterans homes in two other states. It did not respond to multiple requests for comment last year, and company officials did not respond to requests for comment about their protest of the ongoing Georgia tender process.
In response to requests for comment in 2025, Georgia’s Department of Veterans Services Commissioner Patricia Ross denied that Milledgeville was experiencing understaffing, and she said that staff and patient criticism of care at the facility were always “promptly” dealt with.
