VA needs to staff up suicide prevention teams for greater effectiveness, GAO says
The Government Accountability Office has come out with recommendations on how Veterans Affairs can better staff-up and use its suicide prevention teams.
The Government Accountability Office has come out with recommendations on how Veterans Affairs can better staff-up and use its suicide prevention teams.
The Defense Department’s showing negative side effects from a rough transition to a new healthcare contractor in the western United States. Those side…
The Veterans Affairs department’s inspector general says it will take until August before it finishes investigating allegations of manipulated waiting lists in the Phoenix VA medical system and elsewhere around the country. But even if the investigation doesn’t uncover intentional falsification, there is one thing we do know, based on the work of the Government Accountability Office: VA’s data on medical appointment wait times is, at the very least, unreliable. And has been for years. Debra Draper,…