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Archive for October 11th 2012

Cancer Treatment Too Often Determined by Age

Age, not overall health or prognosis, plays too large a role in determining what patients get cancer treatment, according to a new study from the San Francisco VA Medical Center and the University of California, San Francisco.

VA Conference Spending Raises Questions; Investigators Seek Answers

Orlando Conferences According to VA, its weeklong conferences in Orlando provided “professional development and instruction for almost half of VA’s HR workforce.” “These nearly 2,000 HR professionals received training to better recruit, train and ...

VA Conference Spending Raises Questions; Investigators Seek Answers

$52,000 Patton Impersonator Raises Eyebrows
WASHINGTON — Training human resources personnel to recruit, train and retain medical professionals and other personnel is critical to VA’s mission, but has the agency gone overboard in spending on HR training conferences?

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