it would not be acceptable because of bureaucracy and red tape to allow a person who we know is not sharing our values to continue with a direct veteran-facing position.
I am going to need to work with counsel and the OI&T on that.
we actually can't do everything that VA needs to do because we need the hospitals--we work with affiliate hospitals--they don't have the inf...
I don't know enough to be outraged. I will tell you, Congressman, I am taking this very seriously.
We need providers to want to work with VA, because, frankly, veterans need the private community.
Today we are at 72 percent payment within 30 days. That is not good enough.
Our goal is to make sure that you do not need to contact a person, that our systems recognize you as a veteran.
Senator, I think that is accurate. We are not saying that wait times overall are going to go down significantly or at all.
We are very grateful for Congress' leadership in providing us the Choice program.
Last Thursday at our Denver Medical Center's mental health clinic, a veteran took Nurse Practitioner Kathy Rittenhouse hostage.
The fact is that we withdrew the demotion action because of our administrative error and we have already reinstated the action.