{"id":104723,"date":"2020-04-03T21:23:59","date_gmt":"2020-04-04T04:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/va-struggles-to-fill-hospital-jobs-it-has-49000-openings-across-the-country"},"modified":"2020-04-03T21:23:59","modified_gmt":"2020-04-04T04:23:59","slug":"va-struggles-to-fill-hospital-jobs-it-has-49000-openings-across-the-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/va-struggles-to-fill-hospital-jobs-it-has-49000-openings-across-the-country","title":{"rendered":"VA struggles to fill hospital jobs; it has 49,000 openings across the country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/va-struggles-to-fill-hospital-jobs-it-has-49000-openings-across-the-country2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Staffing shortages amid the 386,000 VA employees are \u201ca root cause for many of the problems in veterans\u2019 care,\u201d said Inspector General Michael Missal.<\/p>\n<p>There are two main reasons for the shortages \u2014 low salaries and a lack of qualified applicants, with the former leading to the latter.<\/p>\n<p>Consider this item from the report: VA \u201cmedical center directors make approximately 25% of a private sector hospital chief executive officer salary yet have a greater scope of responsibility.\u201d Top pay for a VA medical center director is $201,900.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staffing shortages amid the 386,000 VA employees are \u201ca root cause for many of the problems in veterans\u2019 care,\u201d said Inspector General Michael Missal. There are two main reasons for the shortages \u2014 low salaries and a lack of qualified applicants, with the former leading to the latter. Consider this item from the report: VA [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1878],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-employment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}