{"id":64208,"date":"2016-02-07T13:35:11","date_gmt":"2016-02-07T18:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=64208"},"modified":"2016-02-07T13:35:11","modified_gmt":"2016-02-07T18:35:11","slug":"linda-weiss-msrb-saves-her-from-firing-at-va","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=64208","title":{"rendered":"Linda Weiss; MSRB saves her from firing at VA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Until November, Linda Weiss was the director of the Stratton Veterans Administration Medical Center in Albany, New York. It was that month that she was removed from that position by VA Deputy Secretary Sloan Gibson. However, according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.timesunion.com\/healthcare\/former-albany-va-director-wins-appeal-but-wont-be-back\/4162\/\">Albany Times-Union<\/a> she won&#8217;t fired after a review by the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board. Sloane says that he won&#8217;t allow her to return to a position which allows her to supervise veterans&#8217; healthcare, though.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Gibson removed her from the position, he said Friday, because she did not take timely, appropriate action to ensure that veterans received safe medical care. Weiss did not hold her employees accountable for actions that led to inappropriate care, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn my judgment, a medical center director who fails to proactively address patient safety concerns or fails to be an advocate for vulnerable Veteran patients has no place in the VA,\u201d Gibson said.<\/p>\n<p>Gibson also did not provide details about the specific patient safety issues considered by himself or the MSPB.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Times-Union article provides details of some of the problems that have been reported at the hospital, mostly in regards to unpunished healthcare workers, some accusations of drug abuse and other patient abuse problems that Weiss allowed to exist without criminal charges against the perpetrators.<\/p>\n<p>So basically, we, the taxpayers are going to continue to pay Weiss, but she doesn&#8217;t have a job. Nice work if you can get it. Thanks MSRB.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Until November, Linda Weiss was the director of the Stratton Veterans Administration Medical Center in Albany, &hellip; <a title=\"Linda Weiss; MSRB saves her from firing at VA\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=64208\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Linda Weiss; MSRB saves her from firing at VA<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41955,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-veterans-affairs-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64208","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}