{"id":71472,"date":"2017-04-13T08:39:09","date_gmt":"2017-04-13T12:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=71472"},"modified":"2017-04-13T09:33:48","modified_gmt":"2017-04-13T13:33:48","slug":"brian-hawkins-fired-at-dc-va-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=71472","title":{"rendered":"Brian Hawkins fired at DC VA Hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"

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WTTG Fox5<\/a> in DC reports that the director of the VA medical center in the District of Columbia, Brian Hawkins, has been relieved from his position there due to gross mismanagement of the facilities there. Conditions were so bad, that the OIG published an interim report before their complete investigation had ended.<\/p>\n

The VA Office of the Inspector General\u2019s Rapid Response team came to the medical center on March 29 to begin its investigation and also returned for another visit last week.<\/p>\n

According to the preliminary report released on Wednesday, it was found the medical center ran out of supplies needed for patient procedures and had to borrow them from a private hospital.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There was also $150 million of equipment that hasn’t been inventoried and can’t be accounted. Facilities were found to be filthy and hazardous.<\/p>\n

They’ve named Colonel Lawrence Connell U. S. Army (Ret) as the DC VA’s Acting Medical Center Director.<\/p>\n

He served more than 30 years as an Army medical service officer including 15 years as a MEDEVAC Pilot as well as Chief Operating Officer, Pacific Regional Medical Command, Honolulu, Hawaii; Chief Executive Officer of Stuttgart (Germany) U.S. Army Medical Health Clinic; Commander of the 43rd Area Support Medical Battalion; and other medical-related staff positions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

From WTOP<\/a>;<\/p>\n

According to the watchdog report, the center frequently ran out of supplies, ranging from special equipment for dialysis treatments and vascular surgery to common supplies such as oxygen tubes and alcohol pads. The shortages forced the center to cancel some patient procedures.<\/p>\n

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The full investigation will determine whether patient harm resulted from any of the shortcomings, the report stated. For now, \u201cIt\u2019s too early for us to make those kind of findings,\u201d Missal said. \u201cClearly, patients were impacted by this. Procedures were postponed; procedures were canceled. But we haven\u2019t yet identified the specific risks to an individual patient.\u201d<\/p>\n

The investigation was spurred by a March 21 anonymous complaint to the IG.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n