VA Improvement Act

Bill: 116-hr-5008
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Gallego, Ruben [D-AZ-7]
Introduced: 2019-11-08
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Congressional oversight

Government information and archives

Health care quality

Health facilities and institutions

Performance measurement

Veterans' medical care
Latest action: action_date: 2019-12-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

Summaries:
action_date: 2019-11-08
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>VA Improvement Act</b> </p> <p>This bill requires the Inspector General of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to identify and transmit a list of specific improvement recommendations for VA medical centers that are underperforming regarding quality of care for the most recent fiscal year. <p>

tv_txt: I 116th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 5008 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES November 8, 2019 Mr. Gallego introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs A BILL To direct the Inspector General of the Department of Veterans Affairs to perform certain duties regarding underperforming medical centers of the Department.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the VA Improvement Act . 2. Duties of the Inspector General of the Department of Veterans Affairs regarding underperforming medical centers of the Department (a) List of recommendations Not later than 90 days after the issuance of the end-of-year relative performance star ratings (in this section referred to as Star Ratings ) for each fiscal year, the Inspector General of the Department of Veterans Affairs shall identify and transmit a list of specific improvement recommendations for each medical center of the Department that received fewer than two stars in the Star Ratings regarding quality of care for the most recent fiscal year. The Inspector General shall transmit each such list to— (1) the Director of the medical center named in the list; (2) the Secretary of Veterans Affairs; (3) the Committees on Veterans’ Affairs of the Senate and the House of Representatives; (4) the Senators for the State in which the medical center is located; and (5) the Representative in whose congressional district the medical center is located. (b) Progress reports Not later than 180 days after the Inspector General transmits a list under subsection (a), the Inspector General shall publish on the website of the Department and submit to the recipients of that list a report that identifies— (1) the extent to which the Director of the medical center implemented the improvement recommendations; (2) any change in the performance of the medical center.