; and (B) provides information, as a result of such explanation, on any covered program for which the veteran or caregiver (as the case may be) may be eligible. (3) A list of required procedures for the directors of the medical facilities of the Department to follow in determining the eligibility and suitability of veterans for participation in a covered program, including procedures applicable to instances in which the resource constraints of a facility (or of a community in which a facility is located) may result in the inability to address the health needs of a veteran under a covered program in a timely manner. (c) Updates The Secretary shall ensure the website under subsection (a) is updated on a periodic basis. 7. Improvements relating to Homemaker and Home Health Aide program (a) Pilot program for communities with shortage of home health aides (1) Program Beginning not later than 18 months after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall carry out a three-year pilot program under which the Secretary shall provide homemaker and home health aide services to veterans who reside in communities with a shortage of home health aides. (2) Locations The Secretary shall select not fewer than five geographic locations in which the Secretary determines there is a shortage of home health aides at which to carry out the pilot program under paragraph (1). (3) Nursing assistants (A) In general In carrying out the pilot program under paragraph (1), the Secretary may hire nursing assistants as new employees of the Department of Veterans Affairs, or reassign nursing assistants who are existing employees of the Department, to provide to veterans in-home care services (including basic tasks authorized by the State certification of the nursing assistant) under the pilot program, in lieu of or in addition to the provision of such services through non-Department home health aides. (B) Relationship to Home-Based Primary Care program Nursing assistants hired or reassigned under subparagraph (A) may provide services