20. Department of Veterans Affairs · Minor
Assess VA recruitment and retention in competitive medical markets
Printed page 648 20. Department of Veterans Affairs
“Assess recruitment and retention in highly competitive medical markets to identify common limiting factors for attracting high-demand, specialized occupations.”
What has happened
- Not started
No study of what limits VA recruitment and retention in highly competitive medical markets. The window’s workforce actions run the other way in aggregate — VA cut roughly 30,000 positions by attrition through FY2025 and dismissed more than 1,400 probationary employees — and the one recruitment analysis VA published, the optometrist pay-range placement, was driven by statute rather than by a market study.
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: news.va.gov press-release search recruitment, retention, workforce,
hiring — the responsive items are
https://news.va.gov/press-room/va-to-reduce-staff-by-nearly-30k-by-end-of-fy2025/ (2025-07-07)
and https://news.va.gov/press-room/va-dismisses-more-than-1400-probationary-employees/
(2025-02-24), recorded here as leads rather than as Evidence because neither is an assessment of
competitive medical markets. Federal Register API, exact phrase "special salary rate" with
conditions[agencies][]=veterans-affairs-department from 2025-01-20 — zero.
- Action
- other
- Object
- VA recruitment and retention in competitive medical markets
- ID
- 1781