Enhanced-Use Lease of Property at the James H. Quillen Veterans Affairs Medical Center at Mountain Home, Tennessee

Zusammenfassung

The Secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs is designating the James H. Quillen Veterans Affairs Medical Center at Mountain Home, Tennessee (the Medical Center), for an Enhanced-Use Lease development. The Department intends to enter into a long-term lease of real property at the Medical Center with the State of Tennessee (through the East Tennessee State University--ETSU) in order to transfer the long-term maintenance and development responsibilities of 31 acres of land (including 9 buildings) to the State of Tennessee. The Enhanced-Use lease will supersede existing leases of buildings and land between VA and the State of Tennessee wherein VA is required to provide and fund all maintenance and capital improvements on behalf of ETSU. The property will continue to be used exclusively as a teaching facility by ETSU's James H. Quillen College of Medicine. As consideration for the long- term use of VA's capital assets, VA will receive a combination of benefits: the cost avoidance and/or revenue generation which will result in more operational funding being available for direct patient care. VA will also receive the benefit of an improved affiliation as the result of greatly impr