Section 1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the “VA Medical Center Improvement Act”.
VA Medical Center Improvement Act
A BILL
To require directors of medical facilities of the Department of Veterans Affairs to submit plans to the Secretary of Veterans Affairs on how to improve such facilities, and for other purposes.
Sec. 2 Plans to improve medical facilities of the Department of Veterans Affairs
Plan required—
In general— The Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall require each director of a medical facility of the Department of Veterans Affairs to submit to the Secretary, not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, a plan to improve such facility in such a fashion as would result in the facility obtaining a Department five-star rating.
Contents— The Secretary shall ensure that each plan submitted under paragraph (1) includes sufficient detail regarding resources, personnel changes, hiring authorities, additional staffing, and changes to information systems as is necessary to obtain the rating described in such paragraph.
Annual reports— The Secretary shall ensure that, in the first fiscal year beginning after the date that is 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act and not less frequently than once each fiscal year thereafter, each director of a medical facility of the Department which does not have a Department five-star rating submits to the Secretary a report on the actions taken by the director to carry out the plan submitted by the director under subsection (a)(1) and to obtain the rating described in such subsection.
Sense of Congress on use of authorities To investigate medical centers of the Department of Veterans Affairs— It is the sense of Congress that the Secretary of Veterans Affairs should make full use of the authorities provided by section 2 of the Enhancing Veteran Care Act (Public Law 115–95).