Washington County is now designated as a Home Base Iowa County. The Washington County Supervisors approved the resolution at their meeting Tuesday. 

Home Base is a national nonprofit dedicated to healing the invisible wounds of war for veterans of all eras, service members, military families and families of the fallen through direct clinical care, wellness, education and research at no cost to them regardless of era of service, discharge status or geographical location.

According to the organization, since 2009, they have served more than 50,000 veterans and their family members and trained over 85,000 clinicians across the nation. 

The only cost to the county so far is to install Home Base Iowa signs on all major roads in the county, estimated to cost around $700. Any future incurred costs will be discussed and approved by the board as needed. The goal of the Home Base Iowa program is to attract veterans to live in Washington County.