[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 170 (Wednesday, September 2, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 46828]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-23615]
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DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS
Advisory Committee on Prosthetics and Special-Disabilities
Programs; Notice of Meeting
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) gives notice under Public
Law 92-463 that a meeting of the Advisory Commitee on Prosthetics and
Special-Disabilities Programs (Committee) will be held Tuesday and
Wednesday, September 1-2, 1998, at VA Headquarters, 810 Vermont Avenue,
NW., Washington, DC. The September 1 session will convene at 8:00 a.m.
and adjourn at 4 p.m. in Room C7C and the September 2 session will
convene at 8:00 a.m. and adjourn at 12:00 noon in Room 630. On the
morning of September 1, the Committee will receive briefings by the
National Program Directors of the Special-Disabilities Programs
regarding the status of their activities over the last six months. In
the afternoon, the Committee will receive a briefing on the data
collection methodology used in the Report to Congress on Maintaining
Capacity to Provide for the Specialized Treatment and Rehabilitative
Needs of Disabled Veterans. On the morning of September 2, the
Committee will be given a status report on the development of outcome
measures for the special disability programs. The Committee will finish
with a discussion on its recommendations with input from VHA senior
manager (Chief Patient Care Services Officer.) The purpose of the
Committee on Prosthetics and Special- Disabilities Programs is to
advise the Department on its prosthetic programs designed to provide
state-of-the-art prosthetics and the associated rehabilitation
research, development, and evaluation of such technology. The Committee
also advises the Department on special disability programs which are
defined as any program administered by the Secretary to serve veterans
with spinal cord injury, blindness or vision impairment, loss of or
loss of use of extremities, deafness or hearing impairment, or other
serious incapacities in terms of daily life functions.
The meeting is open to the public. For those wishing additional
information, contact Kathy Pessagno, Veterans Health Administration
(113), phone (202) 273-8512, Department of Veterans Affairs, 810
Vermont Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20420. Notice of availability of
the Executive Summary of this meeting will be published in the Federal
Register in the near future.
Dated: August 25, 1998.
Heyward Bannister,
Committee Management Officer.
[FR Doc. 98-23615 Filed 9-1-98; 8:45 am]
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