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The Veterans Affairs Department is the latest agency to bring its workforce back to the office, but is envisioning a hybrid workplace to improve recruitment and retention.
Burn pits, they're the agent orange of the most recent generation of veterans. Veterans who were exposed to the open junk incinerators in Iraq and Afghanistan have long complained of resulting health maladies. President Joe Biden mentioned it in his state of the union speech. Some VA benefits have begun to trickle out.
The Department of Veterans Affairs, faced with thousands of job vacancies and a high rate of turnover among its health care workforce, is calling on Congress to set higher pay caps for more occupations, and permanently ease onboarding requirements.
VA Secretary Denis McDonough announced a plan to revamp VA health care facilities by closing and tearing down some, building new ones, establishing outpatient centers and moving more care to the private sector.
Veterans Affairs and the American Federation of Government Employees more than spar over the recommendations for realigning VA people and facilities
The IG reports found the rollout of the new EHR sometimes failed to indicate to providers that patients were flagged as being at high risk of suicide and gave VA providers an incomplete picture of a patients' health care data.
For several years now, the Department of Veterans Affairs has operated a grant program to help disabled veterans adapt their homes. The program is called Specially Adapted Housing Assistive Technology.
On orders from Congress, the Department of Veterans Affairs has been doing a detailed study of nearly 100 health care markets nationwide.
In today's Federal Newscast, House Democrats seek to block the Postal Service from buying mostly gas-powered vehicles as part of its next generation fleet.
Willie Hicks, federal CTO at Dynatrace, joined host John Gilroy on this week's Federal Tech Talk to discuss a new survey that asked three hundred federal information technology professionals about the challenges their agencies face in moving to the cloud.
Registered nurses and physicians assistants working at the Veterans Affairs Department will soon have a higher maximum salary, as part of an effort in Congress to reduce record turnover among the VA’s health care workforce.
Kurt DelBene, the VA’s assistant secretary for information and technology and chief information officer, said he will push the agency to having a more agile, customer focused digital experience.
The Veterans Health Administration is always looking for ways to improve psycho-therapy treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder. Two leading methods are known as cognitive processing and prolonged exposure.
The Veterans Affairs Department is looking to close three hospitals and reshape its real-estate footprint across the country.