Veterans in the Livermore, Calif. area will receive either major renovations to a current veterans nursing home or a new state-of-the-art facility.

The Secretary of Veterans Affairs, James Nicholson, has decided to study three options to modernize or replace the current 120-bed nursing home currently on the Livermore campus with a new facility.

Two of the options that will be studied keep the nursing home on the Livermore campus.

A third option proposes co-locating the nursing home with a community-based outpatient clinic (CBOC) in the Central Valley area.

The local advisory panel will schedule a public meeting soon to review the secretary's decision.