12 2 STA T .483PUBLIC LA W 11 0– 181 —J A N .28 , 2008 (b)QUALITYAS SU R A NCE.—Su b section ( d )( 2 )o f section 1074 f of tit l e10 ,U nited St a tes C ode, is a m ended b y addin g att h e end the follo w ing new sub p a r agraph
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‘( F ) T he diagnosis and treatment of traumatic brain in j ury and post - traumatic stress disorder. ’ ’. (c) STAN D ARDS FO R D E P LOY M ENT.—Subsection (f) of such section is amended— (1) in the subsection heading, by stri k ing ‘‘ M ENTAL H EALT H ’’
and (2) in paragraph (2)( B ), by striking ‘‘or’’ and inserting ‘‘, traumatic brain injury, or’’. SEC.1674 . GUAR A NT EE DF UND I NGF O R W A L TER REED AR MY MEDICAL CENTER , DISTRICT OF COLUM B IA. (a) MINIMUM FUNDIN G .—The amount of funds a v ailable for the commander of W alter R eed Army Medical Center, District of Columbia, for a fiscal year shall be not less than the amount e x pended by the commander of Walter Reed Army Medical Center in fiscal year 200 6 until the first fiscal year beginning after the date on which the Secretary of Defense submits to the congressional defense committees a plan for the provision of health care for military beneficiaries and their dependents in the N ational Capital Region. (b) MATTERS CO V ERED.—The plan under subsection (a) shall at a minimum include— (1) the manner in which patients, staff, bed capacity, and functions will move from the Walter Reed Army Medical Center to expanded facilities; (2) a timeline, including milestones, for such moves; ( 3 ) projected budgets, including planned budget transfers, for military treatment facilities within the region; (4) the management or disposition of real property of mili- tary treatment facilities within the region; and ( 5 ) staffing projections for the region. (c) CERTIFICATION.—After submission of the plan under sub- section (a) to the congressional defense committees, the Secretary shall certify to such committees on a q uarterly basis that patients, staff, bed capacity, functions, or parts of functions at Walter Reed Army Medical Center have not been moved or disestablished until the expanded facilities at the National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland, and DeWitt Army Community Hospital, Fort Belvoir, V irginia, are completed, equipped, and staffed with suffi- cient capacity to accept and provide, at a minimum, the same level of and access to care as patients received at Walter Reed Army Medical Center during fiscal year 2006. (d) DEFINITIONS.— I n this section: (1) The term ‘‘expanded facilities’’ means the other two military hospitals / medical centers within the National Capital Region, namely— (A) the National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland (or its successor resulting from implementation of the recommendations of the 2005 Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission); and (B) the DeWitt Army Community Hospital, Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Plan.
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