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Top Democrats on the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee are planning to introduce legislation that would pause the VA’s troubled rollout of a new Electronic Health Record (EHR) until sites already using the system show improvement.
More than two years into the Biden administration, the Department of Veterans Affairs and the largest federal employee union appear no closer to an agreement on a new labor contract.
The Department of Veterans Affairs is creating an equity task force to ensure minority and underserved veteran populations have equal access to VA health care and benefits.
Deputy VA Secretary Donald Remy helped lead a governmentwide effort to improve customer experience and oversaw the VA’s rollout of a new Electronic Health Record.
The Department of Veterans Affairs has struck an agreement with one of its unions that would allow the agency to expedite the hiring process for certain employees.
The Department of Veterans Affairs' hiring metrics are headed in the right direction, as the agency looks to staff up on healthcare workers to meet its growing workload.
The Small Business Administration is taking on a major project in the new year – certifying the veteran-owned status of small businesses looking to compete for federal government contracts.
The Department of Veterans Affairs is working on a study focused on racial disparities in its benefits claims decisions — an issue that spans decades, according to a federal lawsuit filed Monday.
The Veterans Affairs Department is making progress on an effort to digitize military service records for veterans, as part of its implementation of a major VA health care bill signed into law this summer.
Veterans currently experience long wait times for pain management treatment. Allowing nurse anesthesiologists to treat them would speed the process up.
The Department of Veterans Affairs is seeing a surge of applicants applying for open positions as the agency looks to expand its workforce.
The Veterans Health Administration will hold a national onboarding surge event in November to get candidates who have already accepted job offers to start work sooner.
The VA is also sending letters to every veteran who may have been impacted by problems with the EHR currently running at five VA locations across the U.S.
The Department of Veterans Affairs is saying it's too soon to know if a vendor update has resolved patient safety issues holding up future rollouts of its new Electronic Health Record.