[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 38, Volume 1]
[Revised as of January 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 38CFR17.51]

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            TITLE 38--PENSIONS, BONUSES, AND VETERANS' RELIEF
 
                CHAPTER I--DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS
 
PART 17_MEDICAL--Table of Contents
 
Sec.  17.51  Emergency use of Department of Defense, Public Health 

Service or other Federal hospitals.

    Hospital care in facilities operated by the Department of Defense or 
the Public Health Service (or any other agency of the U.S. Government) 
which do not have beds allocated for the care of Department of Veterans 
Affairs patients may be authorized subject to the limitations enumerated 
in Sec.  17.50 only in emergency circumstances for any veteran otherwise 
eligible for hospital care under 38 U.S.C. 1710 or 38 CFR 17.46.

[33 FR 19010, Dec. 20, 1968. Redesignated and amended at 61 FR 21965, 
21966, May 13, 1996]

                   Use of Public or Private Hospitals