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VA secretary: EHR deployments are ‘going to be done in the right way’
VA Secretary Doug Collins told lawmakers they “have every right to be skeptical” as EHR go-lives resume in April but said the ...
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Was this man a domestic terrorist?: Sen. Elissa Slotkin puts VA Sec. Doug Collins in the hot seat over Alex Pretti during hearing
During a Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee hearing earlier this week, Senator Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) presses VA Secretary Doug Collins on his views regarding Alex Pretti, a VA nurse who was recently ...
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Senate Democrat demands ‘full accounting’ of VA health care dollars that funded staff departures
About $6 billion Congress provided for veterans care was spent on deferred resignations and voluntary retirements as part of ...
Death of VA nurse Alex Pretti hovers over hearing on the Hill with VA secretary
VA secretary Doug Collins is appearing before senators to explain plans to overhaul the department. But some of the focus of the hearing was also on his comments about the killing of Alex Preeti.
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VA’s reorganization, staffing caps a result of previous overhiring, officials say
The secretary similarly said staffing had ballooned out of control in recent years, which itself has led to the department becoming too unwieldy to manage. New staffing caps were developed in ...
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Senator grills VA secretary over delayed veterans suicide report
VA Secretary Doug Collins declined to explain the delay at the hearing or offer a date for when Congress will receive it.
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VA Employees in Shock Over Alex Pretti’s Death, Administration Response
VA Secretary Doug Collins has not sent a personal statement to the staff about the killing of Pretti, an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA Medical Center.