Veterans Health Administration

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VA reviewing 4,000 positions at risk of pay downgrade

VA positions under review include a mix of white-collar General Schedule (GS) and blue-collar Wage Grade (WG) positions.

Pay

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Veterans Health Administration wins big award for surgical safety program

Veterans Affairs

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VA looks to cut 10,000 positions from health care workforce, but seeks bigger budget in 2025

Hiring/Retention

The Seal of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) imposed over a document.

First Look

OMB looks to hire more evaluation experts across government in FY 2025 budget plan

Budget

McDonough says ‘tighter fiscal picture’ at VA requires careful planning to continue health care hiring

Hiring/Retention

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VHA tells leaders to rescind job offers only as a ‘last resort’ to manage size of health care workforce

Hiring/Retention

FILE Registered pharmacist Sapana Patel, loads a syringe with Monkeypox vaccine at a Pop-Up Monkeypox vaccination site on Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2022, in West Hollywood, Calif. Spain is struggling to curtail Europe's leading monkeypox outbreak since the disease spread beyond Africa. The southern European nation counts over 4,500 cases and two men have died from the disease. Authorities and groups in the LGBTQ community are honing their campaigns to get vaccines to the most needy members of the most affected demographic so far. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel, File)

Bloody syringes in VA hospital laundry bins inject ‘better staff training’ into GAO recommendations

Federal Newscast

Special salary rate gives VHA ‘more robust,’ longer-term tools to hire and keep HR staff

Pay

Secretary of Veterans Affairs nominee Denis McDonough

VA seeks to manage size of its health care workforce, keeps growing benefits staffing

Hiring/Retention

The exterior of the Department of Veterans Affairs hospital in east Denver

VHA launches ‘access sprints’ to offer more medical appointments to veterans

Workforce

VHA grants 15% pay raise to HR personnel using Special Salary Rate

Pay

A staff shortage doesn’t mean you can hire just anyone

The last thing the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) needs is new employees who have a substance use disorder or or felons with access to VA pharmacies….

Agency Oversight

VA watchdogs raise alarms about steps missed screening hires with drug felonies

Federal watchdogs have found several gaps in how VA screens candidates for healthcare jobs — including identifying when it hires employees with a drug…

Hiring/Retention

VHA surpassed its hiring goals. Now it’s training HR experts to keep workforce growing

Federal Report

To bring in the next generation of its HR workforce, VHA is taking new graduates through a year of specialized training, to become HR professionals in areas where there’s a shortage of them.