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38 U.S.C. § 8102 — Acquisition of medical facilities
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**(a)** The Secretary shall provide medical facilities for veterans entitled to hospital, nursing home, or domiciliary care or medical services under this title.
**(b)** No medical facility may be constructed or otherwise acquired or altered except in accordance with the provisions of this subchapter.
**(c)** In carrying out this subchapter, the Secretary—
(1) shall provide for the construction and acquisition of medical facilities in a manner that results in the equitable distribution of such facilities throughout the United States, taking into consideration the comparative urgency of the need for the services to be provided in the case of each particular facility; and
(2) shall give due consideration to excellence of architecture and design.
**(d)** In considering the need for any project for the construction, alteration, or acquisition (other than by exchange) of a medical facility which is expected to involve a total expenditure of more than $2,000,000, the Secretary shall give consideration to the sharing of health-care resources with the Department of Defense under [section 8111 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title38-section8111&num=0&edition=prelim) as an alternative to all or part of such project.
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**(a)** The Secretary shall provide medical facilities for veterans entitled to hospital, nursing home, or domiciliary care or medical services under this title.
**(b)** No medical facility may be constructed or otherwise acquired or altered except in accordance with the provisions of this subchapter.
**(c)** In carrying out this subchapter, the Secretary—
(1) shall provide for the construction and acquisition of medical facilities in a manner that results in the equitable distribution of such facilities throughout the United States, taking into consideration the comparative urgency of the need for the services to be provided in the case of each particular facility; and
(2) shall give due consideration to excellence of architecture and design.
**(d)** In considering the need for any project for the construction, alteration, or acquisition (other than by exchange) of a medical facility which is expected to involve a total expenditure of more than $2,000,000, the Secretary shall give consideration to the sharing of health-care resources with the Department of Defense under [section 8111 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title38-section8111&num=0&edition=prelim) as an alternative to all or part of such project.
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For the purposes of this subchapter:
(1) The term “alter”, with respect to a medical facility, means to repair, remodel, improve, or extend such medical facility.
(2) The terms “construct” and “alter”, with respect to a medical facility, include such engineering, architectural, legal, fiscal, and economic investigations and studies and such surveys, designs, plans, construction documents, specifications, procedures, and other similar actions as are necessary for the construction or alteration, as the case may be, of such medical facility and as are carried out after the completion of the advanced planning (including the development of project requirements and design development) for such facility.
(3) The term “medical facility” means any facility or part thereof which is, or will be, under the jurisdiction of the Secretary, or as otherwise authorized by law, for the provision of health-care services (including hospital, outpatient clinic, nursing home, or domiciliary care or medical services), including any necessary building and auxiliary structure, garage, parking facility, mechanical equipment, trackage facilities leading thereto, abutting sidewalks, accommodations for attending personnel, and recreation facilities associated therewith.
(4) The term “committee” means the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs of the House of Representatives or the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs of the Senate, and the term “committees” means both such committees.
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**(a) Required Coordination and Sharing of Health Care Resources.—** The Secretary of Veterans Affairs and the Secretary of Defense shall enter into agreements and contracts for the mutually beneficial coordination, use, or exchange of use of the health care resources of the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of Defense with the goal of improving the access to, and quality and cost effectiveness of, the health care provided by the Veterans Health Administration and the Military Health System to the beneficiaries of both Departments.
**(b) Joint Requirements for Secretaries of Veterans Affairs and Defense.—** To facilitate the mutually beneficial coordination, use, or exchange of use of the health care resources of the two Departments, the two Secretaries shall carry out the following functions:
(1) Develop and publish a joint strategic vision statement and a joint strategic plan to shape, focus, and prioritize the coordination and sharing efforts among appropriate elements of the two Departments and incorporate the goals and requirements of the joint sharing plan into the strategic plan of each Department under [section 306 of title 5](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title5-section306&num=0&edition=prelim) and the performance plan of each Department under [section 1115 of title 31](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title31-section1115&num=0&edition=prelim).
(2) Jointly fund the Department of Veterans Affairs-Department of Defense Joint Executive Committee under [section 320 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title38-section320&num=0&edition=prelim).
(3) Continue to facilitate and improve sharing between individual Department of Veterans Affairs and Departm
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**(a) Training Required.—** The head of each Federal executive agency shall provide training for the human resources personnel of such agency on the following:
(1) The rights, benefits, and obligations of members of the uniformed services under this chapter.
(2) The application and administration of the requirements of this chapter by such agency with respect to such members.
**(b) Consultation.—** The training provided under subsection (a) shall be developed and provided in consultation with the Director of the Office of Personnel Management.
**(c) Frequency.—** The training under subsection (a) shall be provided with such frequency as the Director of the Office of Personnel Management shall specify in order to ensure that the human resources personnel of Federal executive agencies are kept fully and currently informed of the matters covered by the training.
**(d) Human Resources Personnel Defined.—** In this section, the term “human resources personnel”, in the case of a Federal executive agency, means any personnel of the agency who are authorized to recommend, take, or approve any personnel action that is subject to the requirements of this chapter with respect to employees of the agency.
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TITLE 38—VETERANS’ BENEFITS
§ 8102
1991—Pub. L. 102–40 renumbered section 5001 of this
title as this section.
Par. (3). Pub. L. 102–83 substituted ‘‘Secretary’’ for
‘‘Administrator’’.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
EFFECTIVE DATE
Pub. L. 96–22, title III, § 302, June 13, 1979, 93 Stat. 62,
provided that:
‘‘(a) Except as provided in subsection (b) of this sec-
tion, the amendments made by section 301 [enacting
this subchapter, redesignating sections 5011 to 5014 of
this title as sections 5021 to 5024 [now 8121 to 8124], re-
spectively, and amending section 5022 [now 8122] of this
title as so redesignated] shall take effect on October 1,
1979.
‘‘(b)(1) The amendments made by section 301 shall not
apply with respect to the acquisition, construction, or
alteration of any medical facility (as defined in section
5001(3) [now 8101(3)] of title 38, United States Code, as
amended by section 301(a) of this Act) if such acquisi-
tion, construction, or alteration (not including ex-
change) was approved before October 1, 1979, by the
President.
‘‘(2) The provisions of [former] section 5007(a) of title
38, United States Code, as amended by section 301(a) of
this Act, shall take effect on the date of the enactment
of this Act [June 13, 1979].’’
§ 8102. Acquisition of medical facilities
(a) The Secretary shall provide medical facili-
ties for veterans entitled to hospital, nursing
home, or domiciliary care or medical services
under this title.
(b) No medical facility may be constructed or
otherwise acquired or altered except in accord-
ance with the provisions of this subchapter.
(c) In carrying out this subchapter, the Sec-
retary—
(1) shall provide for the construction and ac-
quisition of medical facilities in a manner
that results in
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