VA stopped sending performance data to national health care quality site
The Department of Veterans Affairs over the summer quietly stopped sharing data on the quality of care at its facilities with a national database for consumers, despite a 2014 law requiring the agency to report more comprehensive statistics to the site so veterans can make informed decisions about where to seek care. For years, the VA provided data on a number of criteria to the Hospital Compare website run by the Department of Health and Human Services. After the VA scandal, Congress passed the law mandating the VA to submit even more data. But the VA confirmed to USA TODAY last week that it stopped reporting its information July 1 upon the advice of HHS. Ref. USAToday.
That is because the VA hospitals have not gotten any better. They are still cooking the books and many veterans are still going month without the care they need. This is common practice as the department heads make it look like they are doing very well and very efficient so they can continue to get their bonuses even though the truth is hidden and veterans go without the needed care.
'New low': Dead vets left to 'decompose' in VA morgue for weeks without burial:
An Illinois Veterans Affairs hospital already under fire for excessive wait times, festering black mold and kitchen cockroaches faces a new shame - the bodies of dead patients left unclaimed in the morgue for up to two months without proper burial, whistleblower documents allege. Ref. Source 8c.
This really upset me. The families of those vets should be able to get their loved ones back and given a proper funeral. The VA hospital holding on to the bodies without due process I think is just another cover up of how many are dying because of lack of care.
Allow the veterans and their families the chance to see their loved ones off into the next life and not after they decompose.
VA shuffles managers, declares 'new leadership'
The VA has hired just eight medical center directors from outside the agency since Veterans Affairs Secretary Bob McDonald took over in 2014, despite his assertion that more than "90%" of the VA's medical centers have "New leadership" or "Leadership teams," a USA TODAY investigation found. The rest of the "New leadership" McDonald cites is the result of moving existing managers between jobs and medical centers. Some managers were transferred to new jobs despite problems at facilities they were previously managing. VA officials told USA TODAY salary constraints, a lengthy hiring process and other factors have limited the agency's ability to attract non-VA applicants. Ref. USAToday.
Maybe with this change they can get their nonsense sorted and start helping the veterans but call me a pessimist… I have my doubts.
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