[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 193 (Thursday, October 4, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Pages 50145-50146]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-21626]


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DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS


Creating Options for Veterans Expedited Recovery (COVER) 
Commission; Notice of Meeting

    In accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act, the Creating 
Options for Veterans Expedited Recover (COVER) Commission gives notice 
that a meeting will be held:
    1. October 16, 2018 Palo Alto Heath Care System (PAHCS), Main 
Campus
    2. October 17, 2018 PAHCS, Menlo Park Facility.
    3. November 5 and 6, 2018, from 1-4 p.m. or completion of out-
briefs whatever comes first, VANTS Call.
    The October 16, 2018 meeting will convene at the Palo Alto Medical 
Facility and will be open to the public from 9:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.; 
location for opens sessions is the Auditorium at the Palo Alto Division 
Campus (Building 101, Room C1-100). On October 17, 2018 the meeting 
will be held at the Menlo Park Facility and open to the public from 
8:30 a.m. to 10:00 a.m.; location for open sessions at Menlo Park 
Facility is the Welcome Center Community Room (Building 400, Room 107. 
All other sessions will be closed as the Commissioners will split into 
several interview/data collection teams to accomplish research, discuss 
relevance of the interviews and research and focus group information 
collected, and conduct sensitive interviews/focus groups with Veterans. 
The public is not invited to interviews in order protect privacy data 
and proprietary information under S.C. 552b(c) under (9)(B) ``because 
it would reveal information the disclosure of which would, ``in the 
case of an agency, be likely to significantly frustrate implementation 
of a proposed agency action.''
    October 16, 2018 open meetings will consist of briefings on:

1. Mental Health and Suicide Prevention by the facility Chief
2. Complementary and Integrative Health
3. Whole Health

    October 17, 2018, open meetings will consist of briefings on:

1. Office of Mental Health data (to include statistics on mental health 
providers
2. Presentation by Dr. Amit Etkin, Associate Professor of Psychiatry 
and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University and Investigator for 
Sierra-Pacific Mental Illness Research Education and Clinical Center 
(MIRECC); topic:

    Research related to Veterans with Mental Health Conditions
    November 5 and 6, 2018 meetings are VANTS line by Commissioners and 
a listening line for the public to call in. These meetings are for 
commissioners to out brief and summarize the interview/data collection 
teams' findings from October 16 and 17 and to further discuss 
applicability to the charter and legislative requirements.
    The line number for the public on October 16 and 17 for open 
sessions and November 5 and 6 for open calls is 800-767-1750; access 
code 48664#. The line number will be activated 10 minutes before each 
of the open or call in sessions.
    The purpose of the COVER Commission is to examine the evidence-
based therapy treatment model used by the Department of Veterans 
Affairs (VA) for treating mental health conditions of

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Veterans and the potential benefits of incorporating complementary and 
integrative health approaches as standard practice throughout the 
Department.
    Members of the public are invited to open sessions. Videotaping or 
recording, tweeting commission or staff photos or comments are 
discouraged as they are disruptive to Commission members and staff and 
other audience members. Any member of the public seeking additional 
information should email COVER [email protected]. The Designated 
Federal Officer for the Commission is Ms. Sheila B. Hickman. She and 
the staff will be monitoring and responding to questions or comments 
sent to this email box. The Committee will also accept written comments 
which may be sent to the same email box. In the public's communications 
with the Committee, the writers must identify themselves and state the 
organizations, associations, or persons they represent.

    Dated: October 1, 2018.
LaTonya L. Small,
Federal Advisory Committee Management Officer.
[FR Doc. 2018-21626 Filed 10-3-18; 8:45 am]
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