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Report on long-term care physical infrastructure needs of Department of Veterans Affairs

Title VI: Veterans’ Assuring Critical Care Expansions to Support Servicemembers · Subtitle E: Veterans Infrastructure and Transformation

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The Department of Veterans Affairs must submit a report within one year identifying its physical infrastructure needs to support current and future long-term care for veterans, including specific groups with unique needs. The report will include estimated costs and timelines for needed projects, suggestions for prioritizing projects that address gaps in care availability or quality, and input from relevant VA program offices to ensure a comprehensive plan. It will also specify which projects are best handled as smaller upgrades versus larger facility replacements or new care sites.

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Section Text · Sec. 664.
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(a) In general

Not later than one year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall submit to the appropriate committees of Congress a report, disaggregated by medical center or other relevant health care facility of the Department of Veterans Affairs, identifying the physical infrastructure needs of the Department to support current and future anticipated long-term care needs and models of care for veterans, including—

(1)

infrastructure needed to support the delivery of long-term care for women veterans, veterans with spinal cord injuries and diseases, veterans with traumatic brain injury, veterans with unique behavioral health needs, veterans with memory loss, and other population groups with unique needs or projected future needs;

(2)

information regarding the plans of the Department to provide such care as the Department builds internal capacity but space is not yet available to meet the demand for such care; and

(3)

with respect to any projects needed to provide the infrastructure specified under paragraph (1)—

(A)

the estimated individual project cost and total cost to accomplish those projects; and

(B)

the estimated individual project timeline to accomplish each such project upon receipt of appropriate funding.

(b) Inclusion of information regarding prioritization of certain projects

The Secretary shall include in the report required under subsection (a) information regarding how the infrastructure prioritization processes of the Department, such as the Strategic Capital Investment Planning process, or successor process, could be modified to include higher prioritization of projects that support the provision of a health care service that is not widely available, or is not available in compliance with appropriate quality or access standards, from non-Department providers.

(c) Development of report

In developing the report required under subsection (a), the Secretary shall consult with relevant regional and national program offices of the Veterans Health Administration with responsibility for managing the various health care services covered by the report, including long-term care and care relating to spinal cord injuries and diseases, to ensure that the report contains a holistic, comprehensive, and integrated plan to address the capital asset and other space needs for the population of veterans who require those services.

(d) Indication of types of projects

In the report required under subsection (a), the Secretary shall indicate the projects that can be most efficiently and effectively accomplished through smaller individual infrastructure projects or through a larger medical facility replacement or new site of care, as determined by the Secretary.