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Chairman Rosendale Fights for More Efficient Veteran Care Appointment Scheduling

Washington, September 26, 2024

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Chairman Matt Rosendale (MT-02) of the House Veterans Affairs Committee, Subcommittee on Technology Modernization led a hearing titled: “Ensuring Timely Access: Challenges in VA Scheduling.”

Chairman Rosendale focused on how the current leaders of the Department of Veterans Affairs are seemingly intentionally hindering the implementation of scheduling software that makes it easier for veterans to get timely appointments with community care providers.


“I have serious concerns that the current leaders of the Department of Veterans Affairs might be intentionally undermining WellHive—and making veterans’ health care slower and more difficult—out of a political hostility to community care,” said Rep. Rosendale. “Today we are going to dig into these decisions and the thought process behind them. Because veterans’ appointment scheduling is too important, and the status quo is too broken, to let any of the projects we are discussing today slip into failure or neglect."