20. Department of Veterans Affairs · Minor
Aggressively recruit retired physicians to serve veterans
Printed page 648 20. Department of Veterans Affairs
“Consider aggressively recruiting retired physicians who desire to serve veterans.”
What has happened
- Not started
No campaign, authority or hiring pathway aimed at retired physicians. VA’s in-window recruitment announcements are for employment counsellors (300-plus, 2026-02-03) and for 400 staff to support the electronic health record roll-out; neither targets retired clinicians, and no re-employed-annuitant waiver authority for VA physicians was sought or granted.
No action found yet. This entry is the starting point, not a finding.
Research log
What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence
Research notes
Negative search, 2026-09-01: covered by the p. 646–648 cluster negative search in ch-20.md.
Item-specific checks: Corpus grep retired physician and re-employed annuitant across every
Federal Register file, presidential actions, bills and public laws — zero. news.va.gov blog and
press-release searches retired physicians — one unrelated patient story. Federal Register API,
conditions[agencies][]=veterans-affairs-department from 2025-01-20, all types, read by title —
nothing.
- Action
- other
- Object
- Recruitment of retired physicians
- ID
- 1782