To amend section 1706 of title 38, United States Code, to enhance the management of the provision by the Department of Veterans Affairs of specialized treatment and rehabilitation for disabled veterans, and for other purposes.

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Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to ensure that the Department of Veterans Affairs maintains its capacity to provide for the specialized treatment and rehabilitative needs of veterans with traumatic brain injury or post-traumatic stress or substance abuse disorder and those in need of prosthetics and sensory aids. Requires each geographic service area and medical center of the Veterans Health Administration to maintain such capacity. Extends permanently requirements for reports on the maintenance of such capacity. Requires the Secretary to: (1) utilize uniform standards in the documentation of capacity workload and cost data; and (2) carry out a quarterly assessment of the capacity of the Department and its service areas and medical centers to provide for such specialized treatment needs. Requires the Department's Inspector General to annually audit each service area, and the Department's Under Secretary for Health to conduct an annual employee performance evaluation, with respect to the provision of such needs.

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  Introduced in Senate · EN · 31 October 2001

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