Sources familiar said the discussions have been going on most of the summer.
A newly-obtained inspection report of the VA facility shows two citations for "critical" failures to "protect against contamination" and food being stored at unsafe temperatures.
D-Day veteran and social media star "Papa Jake" Larson, who survived Omaha Beach in 1944, has died at 102.
"It's below health standards," a veteran volunteer told 7 On Your Side. "And what's even worse... Our patients there are facing a lot of chronic health conditions and they're more vulnerable (to) food poisoning."
The decorated U.S. Army veteran is starting a new life without his family in South Korea - a country he left as a child and barely remembers.
It was a celebration 100 years in the making for five centenarians who survived the Eaton Fire in Altadena, two of whom marked their 101st birthdays and both served in World War II on opposite sides of the pond.