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This Act may be cited as the . Ensuring Veterans Access to Care Act of 2014 The table of contents for this Act is as follows: Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. TITLE I—Improvement of Scheduling System for Health Care Appointments Sec. 101. Implementation of upgraded Department of Veterans Affairs electronic scheduling system for appointments for receipt of health care from the Department. Sec. 102. Independent assessment of the scheduling process for medical appointments for care from Department of Veterans Affairs.
TITLE II—Training and Hiring of Health Care Staff Sec. 201. Modification of liability for breach of period of obligated service under Health Professionals Educational Assistance Program for primary care physicians. Sec. 202. Program of education at Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences with specialization in primary care. Sec. 203. Treatment of staffing shortage and biannual report on staffing of medical facilities of the Department of Veterans Affairs. Sec. 204.
Clinic management training program of the Department of Veterans Affairs. Sec. 205. Inclusion of Department of Veterans Affairs facilities in National Health Service Corps Scholarship and loan repayment programs. Sec. 206. Authorization of emergency appropriations. TITLE III—Improvement of Access to Care from Non-Department of Veterans Affairs Providers Sec. 301. Improvement of access by veterans to health care from non-Department of Veterans Affairs providers. Sec. 302. Extension of and report on joint incentives program of Department of Veterans Affairs and Department of Defense.
Sec. 303. Transfer of authority for payments for hospital care, medical services, and other health care from non-Department providers to the Chief Business Office of the Veterans Health Administration of the Department. Sec. 304. Enhancement of collaboration between Department of Veterans Affairs and Indian Health Service. Sec. 305. Enhancement of collaboration between Department of Veterans Affairs and Native Hawaiian health care systems. Sec. 306. Authorization of emergency appropriations.
TITLE IV—Health Care Administrative Matters Sec. 401. Improvement of access of veterans to mobile vet centers of the Department of Veterans Affairs. Sec. 402. Commission on Access to Care. Sec. 403. Commission on Capital Planning for Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Facilities. Sec. 404. Removal of Senior Executive Service employees of the Department of Veterans Affairs for performance. TITLE V—Major Medical Facility Leases Sec. 501. Authorization of major medical facility leases.
Sec. 502. Budgetary treatment of Department of Veterans Affairs major medical facilities leases.