20. Department of Veterans Affairs · Minor
Pilot VA facility-sharing partnerships with local health care systems
Printed page 647 20. Department of Veterans Affairs
“Explore the potential to pilot facility-sharing partnerships between the VA and strained local health care systems to reduce costs by leveraging limited talent and resources.”
What has happened
- Not started
No pilot, demonstration or authority for sharing VA facilities with strained local health care systems. VA’s in-window partnership announcements run to other federal departments and to research — a DOJ agreement on vulnerable veterans (2026-03-11) and an HHS memorandum of understanding on psychedelic drug trials (2026-07-13) — not to sharing clinical space or staff with community health systems.
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: Federal Register API, exact phrase "facility sharing" with
conditions[agencies][]=veterans-affairs-department from 2025-01-20 — zero documents; Corpus grep
facility sharing across every Federal Register file, presidential actions, bills and public laws
— zero; news.va.gov press-release search sharing agreement, partnership — nothing on
facility sharing with local health systems.
- Action
- create
- Object
- VA–local health system facility-sharing pilot
- ID
- 1771