20. Department of Veterans Affairs · Minor
Have VA Medical Centers seek academic and private-sector community input
Printed page 646 20. Department of Veterans Affairs
“Encourage VA Medical Centers to seek out relevant academic and private-sector input in their communities to improve the overall patient experience.”
What has happened
- Not started
No directive, policy or program encouraging VA Medical Centers to seek academic and private-sector input in their communities. The two standing bodies that carry outside input — the National Academic Affiliations Council and the Veterans and Community Oversight and Engagement Board — both predate 2025-01-20 and are department-level, not VAMC-level; their only activity in the window is routine meeting notices and nomination solicitations.
No action found yet. This entry is the starting point, not a finding.
Research log
What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence
Research notes
Negative search, 2026-09-01: covered by the p. 646–648 cluster negative search in ch-20.md.
Item-specific checks: Corpus, every VA Federal Register notice since 2025-01-20 read by title —
the community-input bodies appear only as meeting notices (National Academic Affiliations
Council 2025-05-22, 2025-11-17, 2026-07-21; Veterans and Community Oversight and Engagement
Board 2025-05-09, 2025-06-13, 2025-07-21) and nomination solicitations. news.va.gov
press-release search community input, academic, affiliations — nothing responsive.
- Action
- other
- Object
- VA Medical Center community input
- ID
- 1767