VA Medical Center Facility Transparency Act

This bill would require the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to schedule a veteran's appointment during the same phone call when an enrolled veteran calls to request one. It would require each VA medical center director to send yearly fact sheets on patient numbers, appointments, common conditions, veteran satisfaction, and unresolved problems, plus quarterly fact sheets on average wait times, to the VA Secretary and Congress, and to post them at the facility and online. When a medical center director is temporarily moved to another VA position, the VA would have to notify Congress, appoint an acting director within 120 days, and generally return or reassign the director within 180 days. The bill's requirements would end three years after it becomes law.

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Sponsors

• Abraham J. Hamadeh Republican sponsor
• 1 cosponsors