After an unprecedented hiring surge last year at VA, we are better positioned to meet the needs of the Veterans who rely on us for care throughout the country. However, that doesn’t mean we’re resting on our laurels.
“We are now primarily focused on increasing access to VA care that meets Veterans where they are,” VA Press Secretary Terrence Hayes said.
Meeting Veterans where they are is especially important to the millions of Veterans who choose to make their homes in rural communities. That’s why VA is committed to providing care closer to home and building a strong rural workforce.
Regardless of where you are in your professional career, taking advantage of the opportunities available in these rural facilities can offer personal benefits, as well. From big sky country to beach life, there’s likely a rural VA facility that suits your routine.
No matter where you choose to build your VA career, you’ll begin every day with a fresh commitment to making life better for the more than 9 million brave men and women who risked so much to protect our country and who count on VA.
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The Va hires people to later do a bait and switch which means they offer you a certain pay and then after you are hired they come back with ‘HR made a mistake and we will not pay you what we promised so take it or leave it ‘ they are a damn joke with a bunch of clowns leading the VA .
Actions speak louder than this smoke show. There is a CBOC in the Hudson Valley the employees from the local, right up to the Bronx that have never wanted even though it served locals by word of mouth. The VA did not like it since the VA employees did not like driving all the way out there. They did not list it as an available clinic when you called to get registered. The veteran was told no, we are not signing anyone up for that clinic (when it was a new CBOC) (Pine Plains) after the VA call center denied there was one there for years. They recommended a clinic that was 20+ miles closer literally almost next to the hospital. When an audit on the miles/location for the VA “lazy employees” clinic (Poughkeepsie) miles they drove out in a BIG circle on the roads to make it seem like it was a long distance away from the backyard of the hospital instead of out to a clinic where the “distance” veterans were located. Even GSA contractor for the building told me that the VA wants to close it down since it is at their farthest distant in their VSN and noone wants to go way out there since it is next to the next VSN and 2 other states. They have tried no buildings available for the clinic to other things to closing the clinic (too many to list) even to down graded the facility this last round. The clinic was constantly increasing enrollment and services EVERY month till the obvious undermining. So this article feels like smoke being blown somewhere. As the other person stated it is whom you know for employment not your qualifications. I have seen this with my own eyes and heard it with my own ears. I am a disabled, retired veteran.
One thing we’ve learned over the years is to never believe what they say they’re going to do. Especially if it comes to the top. They are a National Disgrace.
I have applied numerous times at the VA for positions I am qualified for or above qualified for. Good old boys club.. who you know. I am a disabled vet and yet nothing. Joke
The VA hires who they know and not qualified people like me.