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 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.
Deputy VA Secretary Donald Remy told members of the Senate Appropriations Committee that the agency won’t proceed with future EHR go-lives until it addresses persistent outages and patient safety concerns.
The Department of Veterans Affairs will now provide abortions for veterans in life-threatening situations due to a pregnancy or in cases of rape and incest.
One year into a pilot with the Veterans Affairs Innovators Network, the department has made investments into 38 projects and ideas that teams of VA nurses, doctors and other rank-and-file employees have developed at eight medical centers around the country. More than 40 other VA medical centers submitted applications asking to join the Innovators Network.