Dr. Shereef Elnahal, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs undersecretary for health, left, greets Dr. Aref Rahman, VA Butler Healthcare Health Care System’s chief of staff, recently in Washington, D.C. The national VA system has implemented six new priorities for caring for veterans, and they have been enthusiastically embraced by Rahman and the local VA system. Submitted Photo

Thanks to six priorities recently created by the U.S. Veterans Health Administration, veterans are seeing exciting changes in the local VA.

Dr. Shereef Elnahal, Department of Veterans Affairs undersecretary of health, described the six initiatives during an online roundtable Tuesday.

On Friday, Dr. Aref Rahman, VA Butler Healthcare Health Care System’s chief of staff, confirmed the VA Butler Healthcare will wholeheartedly embrace the priorities in an effort to improve every veteran’s experience.

The first priority — hiring faster and more competitively — is aimed at improving the hiring process and making it seamless for a new employee to come on board within the VA Butler Healthcare, Rahman said.