Department of Veterans Affairs December 10, 2012 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

Technical Revisions-State Veterans Homes
Document Number: 2012-29750
Type: Rule
Date: 2012-12-10
Agency: Department of Veterans Affairs
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) amends its regulations governing VA assistance in hiring and retaining nurses in State Veterans Homes. These regulations must be updated because of recent changes to the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) organizational structure, which reassigned certain administrative duties of the Chief Consultant of the Office of Geriatrics and Extended Care to the Director of the Office of Geriatrics and Extended Care Operations.
Secondary Service Connection for Diagnosable Illnesses Associated With Traumatic Brain Injury
Document Number: 2012-29709
Type: Proposed Rule
Date: 2012-12-10
Agency: Department of Veterans Affairs
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is amending its adjudication regulations concerning service-connection. This amendment is necessary to act upon a report of the National Academy of Sciences, Institute of Medicine (IOM), Gulf War and Health, Volume 7: Long-Term Consequences of Traumatic Brain Injury, regarding the association between traumatic brain injury (TBI) and five diagnosable illnesses. The intended effect of this amendment is to establish that if a veteran who has a service-connected TBI also has one of these diagnosable illnesses, then that illness will be considered service connected as secondary to the TBI.
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