Title 38 › PART V — BOARDS, ADMINISTRATIONS, AND SERVICES › CHAPTER 73 — VETERANS HEALTH ADMINISTRATION—ORGANIZATION AND FUNCTIONS › SUBCHAPTER II — GENERAL AUTHORITY AND ADMINISTRATION › § 7314
The Secretary must pick no more than 25 Department health-care facilities to be geriatric research, education, and clinical centers and must set them up and run them if Congress provides enough money. Facilities that already ran such a center on August 26, 1980 should be kept unless they fail to meet the rules or are not effective. The Secretary must also spread the centers across different areas. A special review panel must rank new center proposals and only top-ranked proposals can be chosen. Each chosen facility must have ties with an accredited medical school so medical residents get regular geriatrics training through rotations in the center and in nursing home, extended care, or domiciliary units. It must also train nursing and allied health staff the same way. The facility should be able to attract creative research scientists, have a policymaking advisory committee made up of facility and school representatives, and be able to evaluate its own work. The Assistant Under Secretary for Health sets up the review panel of geriatrics experts, whose members serve up to six months, review proposals, and report their views. The Secretary must make sure the older designated centers are properly funded before funding new ones. Congress may appropriate money as needed, and the Under Secretary will allocate funds from the Department’s medical services and medical and prosthetics research accounts. Research at these centers can compete for funding from the medical and prosthetics research account and gets priority when funds are for geriatrics and gerontology.
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38 U.S.C. § 7314
Title 38, Veterans' Benefits
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Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102