{"id":58281,"date":"2015-02-17T11:35:12","date_gmt":"2015-02-17T16:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=58281"},"modified":"2015-02-16T11:00:30","modified_gmt":"2015-02-16T16:00:30","slug":"vas-i-care-campaign-management-has-made-a-mockery-of-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=58281","title":{"rendered":"VA\u2019s ‘I Care’ Campaign? “Management has made a mockery of it.”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Give the new VA Secretary, Robert McDonald, credit. He appears to be attempting to make some positive changes. Specifically, he appears to be trying to change the VA\u2019s culture. The VA\u2019s new \u201cI Care\u201d campaign is such an effort.<\/p>\n

Actually making those changes, however, may take a while. And Lord knows such changes are really needed. Indeed, per an article in the Washington Times<\/i> yesterday<\/a>, <\/p>\n

. . . the VA culture was responsible for the agency\u2019s addition last week to the Government Accountability Office\u2019s \u201chigh-risk list\u201d of troubled federal programs. The GAO said it has \u201cserious concerns\u201d about VA management and oversight of its health care system and found \u201cinadequate training for VA staff.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As I\u2019ve been saying for some time now: the VA doesn\u2019t have a resource problem; that agency\u2019s budget has increased such that it is today 2.5+ times larger than in 2001. What it does<\/em> have is serious leadership, priorities, and culture problems.<\/p>\n

An organization’s leadership can change its priorities relatively quickly. However, changing the leadership and culture are going to take some time. IMO it will take literally years to identify and remove most of the poor leaders at all levels within the VA, and at least that long to change the organization\u2019s culture.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s supported by the quote in the title of this article. Per the same Washington Times<\/i> article, that is precisely how one VA employee has described his\/her own management\u2019s actions regarding the VA\u2019s new \u201cI Care\u201d campaign designed to change the VA\u2019s organizational culture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Give the new VA Secretary, Robert McDonald, credit. He appears to be attempting to make some … VA\u2019s ‘I Care’ Campaign? “Management has made a mockery of it.”<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}