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Delivering on the Promise
Table of Contents

U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
[Complete Report: HTML = K / PDF = 46K]

Self-Evaluation to Promote
Community Living for People with Disabilities

Report to the President
on Executive Order 13217

Executive Summary

Veterans Benefits Administration

1. Description of Services
2. Eliminated Barriers
3. Remaining Barriers

Veterans Health Administration

1. Description of Services
   1. Health Care Benefits
   2. Specialty Services
   3. Home and Community Services
   4. Access to Services
   5. Consumer and Stakeholder Involvement
2. Eliminated Barriers
   1. Reduced Admissions and Lengths of Stay
   2. Homemaker, Home Health Aide, Respite and Adult Day Health Care Services
   3. Mental Health Services
   4. The Veterans Health Care ELigibility Reform Act of 1996 (Public Law 104-262)
   5. Veterans Millennium Health Care and Benefits Act of 2001 (Public Law 106-117)
   6. The Veterans Benefits and Health Care Improvement Act (Section 221 of Public Law 106-419)
3. Remaining Barriers
   1. Community Services

Last revised: April 9, 2002