Trump Just Uncovered SCANDAL OF CENTURY – Here's
Why Vets Are Dying at the VA.
During Barack Hussein Obama's time in the White House, he regularly showed that he has
no respect for those who serve in the U.S. military.
As a result, the Department of Veterans Affairs was in complete shambles by the end of his
presidency.
As soon as Donald Trump took office, he discovered something about the VA's hiring practices
that is truly disturbing.
Freedom Daily reported that the VA has been allowing its hospitals across the nation to
hire doctors and nurses with revoked medical licenses, a practice it has been doing for
at least 15 years even though it is a violation of federal law.
Back in 2002, the VA issued national guidelines in which it gave local hospitals discretion
to hire clinicians after "prior consideration of all relevant facts surrounding" any revocations,
as long as they possessed a license in one of the fifty states.
This is in direct violation of a 1999 law that bars the VA from employing any healthcare
worker whose license has been revoked by any of the 50 states.
No wonder conditions in VA hospitals have gotten so dangerous.
Things have gotten so bad at the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Washington,
D.C., that the agency's chief watchdog issued a rare preliminary report Wednesday to alert
patients and other members of the public.
The VA inspector general discovered in recent weeks the operating room at the hospital ran
out of vascular patches to seal blood vessels and ultrasound probes used to map blood flow.
The facility was forced to borrow bone material for knee replacement surgeries, and at one
point, the hospital ran out of tubes needed for kidney dialysis, so staff had to go to
a private-sector hospital and ask for some.
Though the hospital serves more than 98,000 veterans in the nation's capital, the inspector
general found that it lacks an effective inventory system.
Making matters worse, senior VA leaders have known about the problem for months and haven't
fixed it.
On top of that, investigators also inspected 25 sterile storage areas and found 18 were
dirty.
"Although our work is continuing, we believed it appropriate to publish this Interim Summary
Report given the exigent nature of the issues we have preliminarily identified and the lack
of confidence in VHA adequately and timely fixing the root causes of these issues,"
VA Inspector General Michael Missal wrote.
Trump wasted no time in taking action.
Immediately after the report was released, the VA issued a statement saying that the
medical center director, Brian Hawkins, was relieved from his position and placed on administrative
duty, "effective immediately."
"The department considers this an urgent patient-safety issue," the statement said.
"VA is conducting a swift and comprehensive review into these findings.
VA's top priority is to ensure that no patient has been harmed.
If appropriate, additional disciplinary actions will be taken in accordance with the law."
USA Today Reports:
Veteran patients in imminent danger at VA hospital in D.C., investigation finds
WASHINGTON — Conditions are so dangerous at the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical
Center in Washington, D.C., that the agency's chief watchdog issued a rare preliminary report
Wednesday to alert patients and other members of the public.
The VA inspector general found that in recent weeks the operating room at the hospital ran
out of vascular patches to seal blood vessels and ultrasound probes used to map blood flow.
The facility had to borrow bone material for knee replacement surgeries.
And at one point, the hospital ran out of tubes needed for kidney dialysis, so staff
had to go to a private-sector hospital and ask for some.
The hospital, which serves more than 98,000 veterans in the nation's capital, lacks
an effective inventory system, the inspector general determined, and senior VA leaders
have known about the problem for months and haven't fixed it.
Investigators also inspected 25 sterile storage areas and found 18 were dirty.
"Although our work is continuing, we believed it appropriate to publish this Interim Summary
Report given the exigent nature of the issues we have preliminarily identified and the lack
of confidence in VHA adequately and timely fixing the root causes of these issues,"
VA Inspector General Michael Missal wrote.
The inspector general rarely issues such preliminary findings.
The last time appears to have been in January 2015, when his office found lapses in urology
care at the Phoenix VA were endangering patients and required "immediate attention."
The VA set up an incident command center on March 30 when the inspector general notified
officials about the problems in Washington; it sent logistics specialists, technicians
and managers to fix the problems.
Such actions, Missal said, are "short term and potentially insufficient to guarantee
the implementation of an effective inventory management system and address the other issues
identified.
"Further, shortages of medical equipment and supplies continued to occur…, confirming
that problems persisted despite these measures," he wrote.
After the report's release Wednesday, the VA issued a statement saying that the medical
center director, Brian Hawkins, was relieved from his position and placed on administrative
duty, "effective immediately."
"The department considers this an urgent patient-safety issue," the statement said.
"VA is conducting a swift and comprehensive review into these findings.
VA's top priority is to ensure that no patient has been harmed.
If appropriate, additional disciplinary actions will be taken in accordance with the law."
New VA Secretary David Shulkin told USA TODAY earlier this week that he welcomes outside
oversight with hopes it will help him fix the beleaguered agency.
The inspector general's investigation, which stemmed from an anonymous complaint on March
21, found that during the past three years, there have been 194 reports that patient safety
has been compromised because of insufficient equipment.
Among the findings:
• In February 2016, a tray used in repairing jaw fractures was removed from the hospital
because of an outstanding invoice to a vendor.
• In April 2016, four prostate biopsies had to be canceled because there were no tools
to extract the tissue sample.
• In June 2016, the hospital found one of its surgeons had used expired equipment during
a procedure
• In March 2017, the facility found chemical strips used to verify equipment sterilization
had expired a month earlier, so tests performed on nearly 400 items were not reliable
Missal said that the practices have placed patients at "unnecessary risk," though
so far, the Office of Inspector General has not determined if patients were harmed.
"The OIG's work is continuing and will include an assessment of whether patient harm
has resulted from any of these inventory practices in its final report on the Medical Center,"
he wrote.
We're glad to see that we finally have a president again who is putting veterans first!
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