Rep. Sortwell: Wisconsin’s licensing agency continues to fall on its promises

Madison – Consultant Shae Sortwell (R-Gibson) launched the next assertion at present concerning the legislature’s ongoing investigation into Governor Evers’ failure on the Division of Security and Skilled Providers (DSPS):

“The legislature was assured by the company again in March that the skilled licensure backlog would enhance via the governor’s allocation of federal ARPA {dollars} into system upgrades and new employees positions.”

To provoke its software program upgrades, DSPS approved a blackout interval of sixteen days, working from the top of April to mid-Might. Throughout this era, nobody was allowed to file for a license, together with a number of medical college students who graduated at the moment and proceed to attend for his or her licenses to be permitted with a purpose to discover employment.

“Unsurprisingly, the Evers administration continues to fail our potential healthcare professionals within the state. The legislature remains to be receiving a number of contacts from its constituents who’re ready months, even with a brand new computerized system. And nobody can get solutions as a result of the company by no means solutions the cellphone or responds to emails.”

“The governor and his bureaucrats keep their displaying of incompetence after they take greater than a 12 months from the time the backlog began (relationship to as early as July 2021) to make use of federal {dollars} or the $5 million the legislature gave them within the funds to make restricted enhancements. Even worse, Evers has but to fill a single employees place out of the 9 he created again in February. If he really cared concerning the individuals of Wisconsin, these positions wouldn’t be vacant and other people might get some solutions. However how can Wisconsinites get their licenses, when their ‘chief’ is an absentee governor?”