Sec. 101. National rural recruitment and hiring plan for Veterans Health Administration
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Not later than 18 months after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, in collaboration with the directors of each community-based outpatient clinic and medical center of the Department of Veterans Affairs, shall develop and implement a national rural recruitment and hiring plan for the Veterans Health Administration to— recruit health care professionals for rural and highly rural community-based outpatient clinics and rural and highly rural medical centers of the Department; determine which such clinics or centers have a staffing shortage of health care professionals; develop best practices and techniques for recruiting health care professionals for such clinics and centers; not less frequently than annually, provide virtually based, on-demand training to human resources professionals of the Veterans Health Administration on the best practices and techniques developed under paragraph (3); and provide recruitment resources, such as pamphlets and marketing material to— Veterans Integrated Service Networks of the Department; rural and highly rural community-based outpatient clinics of the Department; and rural and highly rural medical centers of the Department.
Not later than 18 months after the date of the enactment of this Act, and annually thereafter, the Secretary shall submit to the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs of the Senate and the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs of the House of Representatives a report that includes— the plan developed and implemented under subsection (a); and an assessment of the outcomes related to recruitment and retention of employees of the Veterans Health Administration at rural and highly rural facilities of the Department.
In this section, the terms rural and highly rural have the meanings given those terms under the rural-urban commuting areas coding system of the Department of Agriculture.