{"id":20929,"date":"2010-10-22T10:38:35","date_gmt":"2010-10-22T14:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=20929"},"modified":"2010-10-22T11:04:31","modified_gmt":"2010-10-22T15:04:31","slug":"dirty-instruments-at-another-va-facility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=20929","title":{"rendered":"Dirty instruments at another VA facility"},"content":{"rendered":"

Someone emailed us this morning to remind me that I haven’t criticized the Department of Veterans’ Affairs lately. And since TAH is daily fare for Eric “Black Beret” Shinseki (I’m told) I found this story from Mississippi’s Clarion-Ledger<\/a> which reported that a whistleblower reported dirty instruments at the DVA’s hospital in Jackson. Apparently, the Office of the Inspector General, some of whom are friends of this blog, verified the whistleblower’s allegations;<\/p>\n

Among the findings were that dirty and rust-stained instruments such as scalpels, blade handles, tissue and nail clippers and bone cutters were issued for use within the facility.<\/p>\n

However, the report noted that generally when dirty instruments were distributed, staff replaced them with clean instruments before use.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, that makes me wonder, if they were replaced before they were used, why they even kept rusty scalpels around if they never intended to use them. I mean they saw the things, why didn’t they throw the damn things out?<\/p>\n

A Pre-Clinical Risk Assessment Board that reviewed the situation at the podiatry clinic determined the risk to patients was negligible and there was no need for notices to be sent to patients about exposure to possible infection.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, if a private hospital had done that, we’d be reading about it across the country as headlines. But its the DVA and the patients were just veterans, so what’s the big damn deal?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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