Denis McDonough: “Community care, as Senator Boozman said, and direct care are both important.”

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.

That's a major help to 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 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.