Description: PROSTHETICS AND INTEGRATIVE HEALTH CARE INITIATIVE - Retains the Senate provisions providing $20,000,000 for a new Prosthetics and Integrative Health Care Initiative. This new initiative will ensure that returning war veterans with loss of limbs and other very severe and lasting injuries have access to both modern medicine and integrative holistic therapies for rehabilitation, and will ensure continuity of care for veterans who transition from the DoD health system, including the Amputee Center at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. The Department is directed to report to the Committees on Appropriations of the House and Senate on the status of this new initiative by February 4, 2005
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Department of Veteran Affairs |
$20,000 |
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Federal |
810 NW Vermont Ave
Washington,
DC
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Citation
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Source:
Appropriations Report Language - Conference
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Reference:
Public Law 108-447
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Location:
Page 1469
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Method:
H. Rept. 108-792
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Citation Excerpt: PROSTHETICS AND INTEGRATIVE HEALTH CARE INITIATIVE - Retains the Senate provisions providing $20,000,000 for a new Prosthetics and Integrative Health Care Initiative. This new initiative will ensure that returning war veterans with loss of limbs and other very severe and lasting injuries have access to both modern medicine and integrative holistic therapies for rehabilitation, and will ensure continuity of care for veterans who transition from the DoD health system, including the Amputee Center at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. The Department is directed to report to the Committees on Appropriations of the House and Senate on the status of this new initiative by February 4, 2005
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