H.R. 1577 · 110th Congress
Wounded Warriors Joint Health Care Patient Navigators Act
- Stage
- In committee
- Sponsor
- Christopher Shays
- Introduced
- 2007-03-20
- Latest action
- 2007-04-03 · Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
Summary
Wounded Warriors Joint Health Care Patient Navigators Act - Directs the Secretary of Defense to establish a Department of Defense (DOD)-wide patient navigator program and assign responsibility for overseeing the program to the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs.
Requires patient navigators to be assigned as representatives to medical holdover patients and their families in order to improve health care outcomes. Prohibits the ratio of navigators to patients from being higher than one to ten.