IMPROVEMENTS TO TRAUMA CENTER PARTNERSHIPS.

SEC. 719. IMPROVEMENTS TO TRAUMA CENTER PARTNERSHIPS. Section 708(c) of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017 (Public Law 114-328; 10 U.S.C. 1071 note) is amended— (1) in paragraph (1), by striking “large metropolitan teaching hospitals that have level I civilian”; (2) in paragraph (2)— (A) by striking “with civilian academic medical centers and large metropolitan teaching hospitals”; and (B) by striking “the trauma centers of the medical centers and hospitals” and inserting “trauma centers”; and (3) in paragraph (3), by striking “large metropolitan teaching hospitals” and inserting “trauma centers”.