All hospitals at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) have experienced a “severe” staff shortage, with the number of shortages increasing by 50% this fiscal year, according to a new new. Report Independent regulator from the agency.
The report was released on Tuesday, the next day Guardian reveals The department lost thousands of healthcare professionals, believing that Donald Trump led the system’s “core.”
The Inspector General found that 94% of VA facilities faced a “severe” doctor shortage, while 79% of doctors faced a severe nurse shortage. Psychology is “the most commonly reported shortage of clinical professionals.” Most VA facilities also report a severe shortage of police officers who keep veterans and employees safe.
Virginia operates the largest integrated healthcare system in the United States, serving 9 million veterans each year. The report is required by two laws, one signed by Trump in 2017, requiring the institution’s inspector general to determine the extent of staff shortages in each medical center every year.
In a statement, California Congressman Mark Takano, a ranking Democrat of the House Veterans Affairs Committee, said the report “recognizes our concerns” that the shortage of medical staff is leading to “reduced access and veteran choices.”
Virginia Press Secretary Peter Kasperowicz told the Guardian that the oversight report enforced by Congress was “not a reliable indicator of artificial shortage” and was “completely subjective, not standardized and unreliable.”
The report is based on an April survey of VA Medical Center. Since then, a guardian review of agent staffing records has been found, and Virginia continues to lose doctors, nurses, psychologists, social workers and other frontline medical professionals.
Kasperowicz did not raise the fact that the agency’s “mission-critical” healthcare workers under Trump’s leadership – including after the investigation period of the oversight agency.
Virginia is within the 30,000 department-wide workforce, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Doug Collins explain It can be achieved by combining consumption, recruitment freezes and postponement resignation programs to September.
Collins said staff cuts do not affect patient care, but rather “focus on reducing bureaucracy and improving services to veterans.”
May, Guardian Report Virginia employee losses resulted in unit closures, reducing operating time and exam backlogs across the hospital system.
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