#veterans-affairs

#veterans-affairs

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Nine companies have won positions on a potential 10-year, $14 billion contract for a broad scope of support services to aid the Veterans Affairs Department in its ongoing health care modernization efforts. The Integrated Healthcare Transformation 2.0 contract's primary functional areas include health system transformation and innovation, implementation and operations support, health care business enabling services, and health informatics. VA announced the awardees Tuesday as the following: Agile4Vets Arrow Arc Blue Water Thinking Greenside Solutions Promethus Federal Services Reefpoint Group Rios Partners Titan-Auxo Tribility

The Department of Veterans Affairs has lost thousands of healthcare professionals deemed core to the system's ability to function, affecting mission-critical work.

I stirred up too much s***! Berkowitz told 7 On Your Side, adding he was appalled at the quality of food the hospital was serving. The facility wasn't even following basic health standards. They didn't care!

"President Trump believes creating non-career Schedule G positions will enhance government efficiency and accountability and improve services provided to taxpayers by increasing the horsepower for agency implementation of administration policy."

The US Department of Veterans Affairs has demanded staffers report colleagues engaging in diversity initiatives and banned LGBTQ+ pride flags from VA hospitals.

Lavingia described a chaotic work environment at DOGE, where leadership was opaque and processes were disorganized, leading to frustrating experiences within the VA.

"In a June 13-dated letter to VA Inspector General David Case, Sens. Blumenthal and King called for a review of the hundreds of VA contracts cancelled by the Department of Government Efficiency."

The changes open the door to discrimination based on non-protected characteristics, allowing healthcare professionals to refuse treatment based on personal beliefs and political affiliations.

The changes seem to open the door to discrimination on the basis of anything that is not legally protected," Dr. Kenneth Kizer, the VA's top healthcare official during the Clinton administration, told The Guardian. "Previously VA hospitals' bylaws said that medical staff could not discriminate on patients based on race, age, color, sex, religion, national origin, politics, marital status, or disability in any employment matter."

Democrats are concerned that the VA's reliance on AI for contract cancellations lacked oversight, potentially jeopardizing critical services for veterans.

"If there's damage that is done in the next 3.5 years with all the things that are being repealed right now, it is going to be 10 times as hard for us to get any of that back," said Dr. Kimberly Gandy.

DOGE had no direct authority. The real decisions came from the agency heads appointed by President Trump, who were wise to let DOGE act as the 'fall guy' for unpopular decisions.

After enduring months of frustration and confusion due to a bureaucratic error, Craig Haskell has finally seen his VA pension payments reinstated.

Collins stated the VA's EHR modernization project had been fraught with challenges, describing it as 'a cold fish' at the time he assumed the role of secretary.

Our nation told our veterans we would take care of them if they put their lives and health on the line to protect our freedoms, and the Trump administration is breaking that promise.