The VA Is Making Disciplinary Actions Against Employees Public Information

If you mean will it make a difference in the personnel quality at the VA, I don't believe so. I believe fixing it goes much deeper--it is their culture. My good friend worked at the VA her whole career, and I did some training for them and talked with Gen Shinkseki when he was leading it. I heard stories she told that having worked for DoD and Army, amazed me. It is so large, so disjointed, and so decentralized, it would be difficult to change it. Every decentralized location is run by an SES who does things her/his own way. And there is a whole different culture between every function. For example, the hospitals are a whole different world than the other organizations. Civilians aren't trained on leadership like they were when I came up in the Army, and most don't have that connection in their minds between their job and the ultimate customer--the veteran. With the bosses I had in the Army, there was an expectation that you just do not lie. You can mess up, but you cannot lie about it. I don't believe they have instilled that throughout the culture. There are a lot of great people in the VA who try to do the right thing, but I think there are some pockets of incompetence that have been allowed to go on so long, they don't know what right looks like, and it's poisoned how many veterans feel about them. I find it difficult to imagine how having their names made public in case you want to check will change that culture.

CPT (Join to see) wow, seeing is believing on this read/share here. Especially for the Hampton, VA Medical Center wait times are staggering.