Hampton VA Medical Center
Hampton VA Medical Center
The VA announced it is eliminating the extra approval step for veterans seeking community care referrals. Under this new policy, VA doctors can refer patients to private providers directly, without requiring an additional VA doctor to sign off. This implements…
Rep. Jen Kiggans (R-VA) — who represents parts of the Hampton VAMC service area — has introduced a bipartisan bill to modernize the VA’s medical supply chain using a cloud-based inventory management system. The bill, co-sponsored by Rep. Jimmy Panetta…
On May 9, President Trump issued an executive order directing the Department of Veterans Affairs to resume using controversial disciplinary statutes from the 2017 VA Accountability and Whistleblower Protection Act (Public Law 115-41). These powers had been largely abandoned after…
New reporting shows VA required senior employees involved in workforce reduction planning to sign non-disclosure agreements (NDAs), effectively silencing them. House Oversight Ranking Member Gerry Connolly and others are investigating whether this violates whistleblower protection laws and represents a deliberate…
VA Secretary Doug Collins faced bipartisan heat in Congress this week over plans to cut up to 80,000 employees—a 15% rollback to 2019 staffing levels. Collins insisted it’s a “goal, not a fact,” but acknowledged the number could rise or…