{"id":64844,"date":"2016-03-16T09:00:07","date_gmt":"2016-03-16T13:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=64844"},"modified":"2016-03-16T07:54:15","modified_gmt":"2016-03-16T11:54:15","slug":"three-more-phoenix-vamc-execs-to-be-fired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=64844","title":{"rendered":"Three More Phoenix VAMC Execs to Be Fired"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fox News reports that 3 additional VA executives at the Phoenix VAMC <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2016\/03\/16\/3-more-phoenix-va-officials-to-be-fired-over-wait-time-scandal.html\">are to be fired<\/a><\/em>.\u00a0 Those indivuals are Dr. Darren Deering, the hospital&#8217;s chief of staff; Lance Robinson, the hospital&#8217;s associate director; and Brad Curry, chief of health administration services.<\/p>\n<p>The three are being fired in due to the VA&#8217;s secret waiting list scandal that both Jonn and I have written about previously.<\/p>\n<p>This brings to four the number of VA senior executives who have been fired from the Phoenix VAMC.\u00a0 The hospital\u2019s former director, Sharon Helman, was previously fired.\u00a0 Her firing was upheld on appeal.<\/p>\n<p>Those fired in this round of dismissals will have the right to appeal their dismissal.\u00a0 Let\u2019s hope the VA did a better job here<br \/>\n&#8220;dotting the \u2018Is\u2019 and crossing the \u2018Ts\u2019 &#8221; than they did with the two in Philly who unethically engineered their own transfers.<\/p>\n<p>IMO not nearly enough VA execs and administrative personnel have lost jobs over this scandal so far.\u00a0 But it\u2019s a start.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fox News reports that 3 additional VA executives at the Phoenix VAMC are to be fired.\u00a0 &hellip; <a title=\"Three More Phoenix VAMC Execs to Be Fired\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=64844\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Three More Phoenix VAMC Execs to Be Fired<\/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":[86,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-veteran-health-care","category-veterans-affairs-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64844","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=64844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}