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Requirement to notify Committees on Armed Services of hospitalization of combat wounded members of the Armed Forces

Division A · Title VII: Health Care Provisions · Subtitle B: Health Care Administration

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The military must inform the House and Senate Armed Services Committees when service members are seriously wounded in combat and hospitalized outside the combat zone. These notifications can be given as overall numbers and cannot include personal details about the injured members.

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Section Text · Sec. 732.
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(d) Other notifications

(1)

The Secretary concerned shall notify the Committees on Armed Services of the House of Representatives and the Senate of the occurrence of a hospitalization of a member of the armed forces who is—

(A)

seriously or very seriously wounded in action resulting from the conduct of combat operations; and

(B)

evacuated from a theater of combat and admitted to any military medical treatment facility or civilian medical treatment facility, regardless of location.

(2)

The notifications under paragraph (1)—

(A)

may be made on an aggregate basis; and

(B)

may not include personally identifying information of the hospitalized members.