Every VA medical center in the country has severe staffing shortages, audit finds
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All of the Veterans Health Administration’s 139 facilities reported lacking workers, and reports of severe shortages increased 50% from the previous fiscal year.
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All of the Veterans Health Administration’s 139 facilities reported lacking workers, and reports of severe shortages increased 50% from the previous fiscal year.
The independent watchdog for the Department of Veterans Affairs said the department’s health system is facing a severe staffing shortage of clinical and nonclinical workers that has worsened since last year - at the same time the department has shed tens of thousands of workers and recruited fewer m…
This year, Veterans Health Administration facilities reported 4,434 severe occupational staffing shortages in jobs ranging from physicians to nurses to security guards to electricians, the VA's inspector general said in the report.
The VA's Office of Inspector General found facilities reported 4,434 staffing shortages this fiscal year, which is a 50% increase from fiscal year 2024.
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