{"id":60951,"date":"2015-07-21T10:59:38","date_gmt":"2015-07-21T14:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=60951"},"modified":"2015-07-21T10:59:38","modified_gmt":"2015-07-21T14:59:38","slug":"va-chief-indicted-50-counts-of-falsifying-medical-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=60951","title":{"rendered":"VA chief indicted; 50 counts of falsifying medical records"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bobo sends us a link to the Washington Post<\/a> in regards to the indictment of Cathedral Henderson, the Departmental Chief of Purchase Care at the VA’s Augusta facility;<\/p>\n

Henderson, 50, was…coordinating medical care for veterans that VA could not offer. He was responsible for ensuring that more than 2,700 veterans awaiting approval for care outside the system were properly referred to for doctor\u2019s appointments.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Someone told Henderson to close out requests for care outside of the VA system, and he took that to mean that his employees should alter patient records to reflect that they had either opted out of the program or had completed services offered to them.<\/p>\n

Each of the charges against Henderson refers to a veteran with a pending need for medical care: Two patients were waiting for imaging, one for an ultrasound, one for neurology, another for surgery and 45 more for mammograms, according to prosecutors.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

His attorney,Keith B. Johnson of Augusta, told The Augusta Chronicle that his client \u201cwas following the directive of his supervisors, and that will come out in court documents.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

While I’m not positive that Henderson was told directly by his superiors to alter veterans’ records, I am sure that he thought it would be an acceptable solution and that is part of the problem at the VA – it’s a part of the bureaucratic culture in the agency. Even if he was told directly to alter veterans’ records, he knew it was wrong and should have ignored the orders, or become a whistleblower. But, you know, he had a 20 year career <\/a>to worry about which is more important than a few veterans’ preventative care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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