§7321A Committee on Care of Veterans with Traumatic Brain Injury

Summary

The Secretary must create a Committee on Care of Veterans with Traumatic Brain Injury inside the Veterans Health Administration. The Under Secretary for Health must pick Department employees who know about treating traumatic brain injury to serve on the committee. The committee must keep checking how well the Veterans Health Administration meets veterans’ treatment and rehabilitation needs. It must review care, find systemwide problems, point out specific facilities that need better programs, and find successful model programs that should be used more widely. The committee must advise the Under Secretary on policy and make recommendations about improving care, staff training, research priorities, and how to use resources. By June 1, 2010, and each year after, the Secretary must send a report to the Senate and House Committees on Veterans’ Affairs. The report must list the committee members; give the Under Secretary’s assessment of VHA capability systemwide and by facility; describe plans for more assessments; summarize the committee’s findings and recommendations and the Under Secretary’s views; and describe steps taken or planned (with a timetable) and the resources to improve care.