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Veterans services seeks temporary nursing pool, faces Build America Buy America hold on Boise rebuild
Summary
The Division of Veteran Services told JFAC it is piloting a temporary nursing pool to reduce use of higher‑cost contract nurses, detailed a 35% turnover rate among nursing staff, and said federal Buy America rules and pending federal waivers have delayed federally funded rebuilds of the Boise and Lewiston veterans homes.
Mark Shample, chief administrator of the Idaho Division of Veteran Services, and Legislative Services analyst Frances Lippett told the Joint Finance‑Appropriations Committee the division is planning a pilot to hire a pool of temporary benefited state employees to reduce reliance on contracted nursing staff and improve continuity of care.
Lippett reviewed the division’s budget trends and said the division had a 35% turnover rate for skilled nursing staff in FY‑24 and increasingly relies on contract labor. The division requested a net transfer of $1.2 million from operating to personnel to create 22 temporary benefited nursing positions as a pilot; the stated aim is to shift roughly one‑third of contracted…
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