Jon Tester

Sweeping VA bill seeks more pay flexibility for health care workers, stricter EHR requirements

The VA would receive additional pay flexibilities for its health care workforce, if a sweeping legislative makes it through Congress.

Veterans Affairs

Senators introduce bill authorizing new VA facilities in eight states

Federal Newscast

Senate committee continues scrutiny of sexual harassment claims against VA DEI office

Federal Newscast

VA, AFGE support parts of bipartisan bill to refine how agency fires poor performers

Workforce

Healthcare, TAP big concerns for military to civilian transition

Defense News

First Look

VA committee leaders demand ‘guardrails’ for bonuses as agency claws back payouts to career executives

Pay

AP/Charles Dharapak

VA extends PACT Act deadline to Aug. 14 for backdated benefits after website issues

Technology

Exclusive

Senate VA bill directs agency to rethink how it fires poor-performing employees

Workforce

VA renews EHR contract, sets higher penalties for performance metrics missed by vendor

IT Modernization

VA pauses all future deployments of its new EHR in latest ‘reset’ of troubled rollout

IT Modernization

Lawmakers closing ranks on a bipartisan bill to fix VA’s troubled EHR rollout

IT Modernization

Senate Democrats join calls for pause on new VA EHR rollouts until metrics improve

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…

Veterans Affairs

VA HR officials support bill to overhaul agency’s 16-year old pay model for doctors

Top human resources officials for the Department of Veterans Affairs say a bipartisan bill raising pay caps for VA doctors and other health care providers…

Veterans Affairs

VA EHR linked to veterans ‘fatally harmed,’ senators say, but agency still sees way forward for project

Veterans Affairs

VA is telling Congress it understands what went wrong in previous deployments of its new Electronic Health Record, and is confident short-term fixes will allow the agency to resume the project.