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The VA's 2023 Hiring Spree: A Lot of Psychiatrists
« on: August 17, 2024, 11:00:03 am »
The VA's 2023 Hiring Spree: A Lot of Psychiatrists
 
Military.com | By Rebecca Kheel
Published August 09, 2024 at 12:49pm ET

This story, part of a series of investigative reporting projects by Military.com on service member and veteran health, was supported by the Pulitzer Center.

The Department of Veterans Affairs needed staff. A lot of staff. And a lot more psychiatrists.
 
In the wake of the largest expansion of veterans benefits in a generation after the signing of the PACT Act in 2022, more than 700,000 veterans had newly enrolled in VA health care, including more than 150,000 who were freshly eligible because of the law and now asking for medical support.
 

To handle that influx of new patients, the VA's Veterans Health Administration hired nearly 62,000 new employees in 2023. That included bringing on 340 psychiatrists, the second biggest category of physician hires behind only primary care doctors, according to data obtained by Military.com through a public records request.

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2024/08/09/vas-2023-hiring-spree-lot-of-psychiatrists.html
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Re: The VA's 2023 Hiring Spree: A Lot of Psychiatrists
« Reply #1 on: August 17, 2024, 11:03:51 am »
This says volumes about what must be massive chaos and confusion in today's military.  It may also be a result of wokeness creating a chasm between what troops believe the military should be and the way it is. :pondering:
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