{"id":71818,"date":"2017-05-02T11:40:50","date_gmt":"2017-05-02T15:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=71818"},"modified":"2017-05-02T11:40:50","modified_gmt":"2017-05-02T15:40:50","slug":"va-fires-toby-mathew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=71818","title":{"rendered":"VA fires Toby Mathew"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=71819\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-71819\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Toby-Mathew.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-71819\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Toby-Mathew.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Toby-Mathew-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2017\/05\/02\/va-fires-embattled-la-director-amid-scandal-secret-wait-lists.html\">Fox News<\/a> reports that yet another director has been fired by the VA &#8211; this one, Toby Mathew, in Louisiana.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The director of the beleaguered Shreveport VA hospital in Louisiana has been fired following a three-year tenure filled with scandal including accusations of covering up a secret wait-list, creating severe staffing shortages and refusing to buy essentials like vital signs machines, linens or mattresses.<\/p>\n<p>Toby Mathew, who became director of Overton Brooks VA Medical Center in June 2014, was fired on April 13 due to \u201ccharges related to general misconduct, and failure to follow policy and provide effective oversight of the Center&#8217;s credentialing and privileging program,\u201d said an internal VA memo obtained by Fox News.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The VA confirmed his removal in a brief statement: \u201cToby Mathew was removed from employment as director of the Overton Brooks VA Medical Center in Shreveport, Louisiana effective April 13, and he is no longer at VA.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbs.com\/story\/34469631\/intimidation-discrimination-retaliation-complaints-led-to-shreveport-va-hospital-chiefs-ouster\">KTBS<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In just over two years, he racked up a long list of complaints, spelled out in three formal requests seeking an investigation. KTBS 3 News obtained copies of those complaints.The first, dated September 2, 2016, says, &#8220;Mathew has a consistent pattern of bullying, intimidation, discrimination, harassment and retaliation against many staff members &#8230; that clearly violates a number of policies.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Funny how it wasn&#8217;t possible to fire poor performers at the VA in the past, but suddenly two directors have been tossed to the curb in the last few months.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Mick for the tip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fox News reports that yet another director has been fired by the VA &#8211; this one, &hellip; <a title=\"VA fires Toby Mathew\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=71818\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">VA fires Toby Mathew<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":71819,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71818","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\/71818","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=71818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/71819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}