VA Vet Centers: Continued attention to GAO recommendations could help meet veteran and servicemember needs : testimony before the Subcommittee on Health, Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, House of Representatives
Continued attention to GAO recommendations could help meet veteran and servicemember needs: testimony before the Subcommittee on Health, Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, House of Representatives
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United States. Government Accountability Office, issuing body.
United States. Congress. House. Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Subcommittee on Health, issuing body.
Publication:
Washington, DC : United States Government Accountability Office, February 3, 2022
Why GAO did this study. Vet Centers provide a range of services, including individual, group, marriage, and family counseling; as well as counseling for post-traumatic stress disorder and military sexual trauma. Vet Centers supplement, and are separate from, mental health services provided through Department of Veterans Affairs medical centers. This statement describes the status of VHA’s efforts to implement the four recommendations from GAO’s September 2020 report, GAO-20-652, which VHA concurred with. It also includes preliminary observations from ongoing work examining Vet Centers. For this statement, GAO reviewed VHA’s reports of steps RCS has taken to address GAO’s recommendations. GAO also reviewed RCS’s policies and requirements related to Vet Centers, and interviewed RCS officials and staff from five Vet Centers, selected for variation in factors such as geographic location, among others.
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