VA Health Care Capacity Assessment Act

This bill would require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to send a report on staffing at each VA medical facility to the Senate and House Veterans' Affairs Committees within 180 days of becoming law, and then by December 31 of each even-numbered year. Each report would assess staffing levels for health care workers and support staff, clinical panel sizes, direct patient care staff, and building space, along with a plan and timeline to address problems found. The report would also list wait times and workload for mental health, primary care, gastroenterology, and women's health clinics, and describe staffing models for those clinics. It would cover vacant positions, barriers to filling them, plans for long-term vacancies and emergencies, and counts of providers who were removed, retired, left, were reassigned, or were rehired over the prior two years.

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Sponsors

• Mark Takano Democrat sponsor
• 0 cosponsors