Denis McDonough

You and your fellow Senators have kept the heat on and the delegation have kept the heat on us.

That's a major help to us.

That's a major help to us.

we are going out to get new veterans into the system.

we are going out to get new veterans into the system.

we should be able to watch this develop and be in a position to make sure that we have the people and the space to take care of those vets.

We want to make sure that we compete for the veterans' care, and we can compete on quality.

You and your fellow Senators have kept the heat on and the delegation have kept the heat on us.

we should be able to watch this develop and be in a position to make sure that we have the people and the space to take care of those vets.

We had a very good couple of years hiring. I just said that we hired, net, 14,000 nurses in the last two and a half years.

We want to make sure that we compete for the veterans' care, and we can compete on quality, and we want to make sure that veterans know that we're invested in their quality.

That's a major help to us.

You and your fellow Senators have kept the heat on and the delegation have kept the heat on us.

we are tracking with each of our visits, at the VISN level, what their spend every month, what their enrollment is every month, and what their FTE count is every month.

We have right sized our eyes and our stomach in this program, having learned very hard lessons over the course of the last almost four years of deployment of the new system.

there's no justification for Mr. Conine's the situation that he's experienced or that his survivor and his family members are experiencing.

You have my commitment to implement those recommendations.

You have my commitment to implement those recommendations.

Ian Fishback was also a national hero, one.

You have my commitment to implement those recommendations.

I think Senator Murray is challenging us.

I think Senator Murray is challenging us.

The most exciting thing about telehealth is that it reduces the barrier to access.

we are continually looking for ways to increase our partnership, and the Federal portion of that partnership, either through per diem, or through grants as we develop new facilities.