VA suicide prevention staff face burnout as workload rises, watchdog warns

VA suicide prevention staff face burnout as workload rises, watchdog warns
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People walk part the entrance of the Washington D.C. VA Medical Center in June 2014. (Jose Luis Magana/AP)
As demand for mental health services and suicide prevention programs increases within Veterans Affairs offices, staffers there may be at risk of exhaustion and burnout if changes aren’t made to better track and manage those employees, an outside watchdog warned Monday.
In a new report, the VA Inspector General said that department leaders have not done a thorough enough review of VA suicide prevention teams’ staffing, workloads and challenges. Without that, they cautioned, leaders do not have enough visibility over operations to ensure new prevention programs are being implemented properly.

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