Highest Vacancy Rates are for VA Psychologists

USA Today reported yesterday, the VA has a lot of jobs not filled.

Some of the highest vacancy rates are for psychologists. In 13 regional health care systems, 40 to 64% of psychologist positions are vacant. Nationally, about 21% of such positions are vacant.

While veterans wait for the Congress and the VA to get it right, we have the most important piece of news in this whole article.

On the House side, Rep. Dan Benishek, R-Mich., a surgeon who worked part-time as a contractor at a VA facility for 20 years, also has proposed legislation to streamline hiring and improve accountability.

“Frankly, it’s a management problem,” Benishek said in July. Over the past 30 years, the VA Inspector General's office has repeatedly said the agency should have a national recruitment plan to attract and retain physicians. It still doesn’t exist, he said.

There you go! 30 years later nothing has really changed but members of Congress don't seem to notice that.