{"id":69240,"date":"2016-12-05T10:00:22","date_gmt":"2016-12-05T15:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=69240"},"modified":"2016-12-05T10:00:22","modified_gmt":"2016-12-05T15:00:22","slug":"four-resign-from-va-ahead-of-discipline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=69240","title":{"rendered":"Four resign from VA ahead of discipline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2016\/12\/04\/4-quit-after-oklahoma-veteran-with-maggots-in-wound-dies.html\">Fox News<\/a>, Raymie Parker begged the staff at the Talihina, Oklahoma VA hospital facility to change his father&#8217;s bandages. By the time the staff got around to changing 73-year-old Owen Reese Peterson&#8217;s bandages and dressing his wound, it had become infested with maggots.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Oklahoma Department of Veterans Affairs executive director Myles Deering said the maggots were discovered while the patient was alive at the facility in Talihina, about 130 miles southeast of Tulsa. Deering said the maggots were not the cause of his death.<\/p>\n<p>Deering said the veteran came to the center with an infection and died of sepsis, the Tulsa World reported.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tulsaworld.com\/news\/health\/four-resign-from-talihina-veterans-center-after-resident-found-with\/article_7fcaa06d-e11e-5b4d-82d8-e0a8918ec284.html\">Tulsa World<\/a>, a physician\u2019s assistant and three nurses, including the director of nursing, resigned in the wake of the investigation.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cAll four chose to resign before the termination process began,\u201d Faulkner said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The VA&#8217;s excuse for the incident is that their Oklahoma facility is a shithole and they can&#8217;t find good people to work for them. Well, I feel better now. Don&#8217;t you feel better, Owen Reese Peterson?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Fox News, Raymie Parker begged the staff at the Talihina, Oklahoma VA hospital facility &hellip; <a title=\"Four resign from VA ahead of discipline\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=69240\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Four resign from VA ahead of discipline<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40997,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69240","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\/69240","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=69240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}