{"id":73435,"date":"2017-07-18T10:56:59","date_gmt":"2017-07-18T14:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=73435"},"modified":"2017-07-18T10:56:59","modified_gmt":"2017-07-18T14:56:59","slug":"va-removes-officials-from-manchester-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=73435","title":{"rendered":"VA removes officials from Manchester hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Boston Globe<\/a> reports that two officials of the Manchester, New Hampshire VA hospital have been canned after the paper’s investigation of conditions there.<\/p>\n

The hospital\u2019s chief of medicine, Dr. Stewart Levenson, said he had \u201cnever seen a hospital run this poorly.\u201d<\/p>\n

The staffers, who reported the Manchester hospital to a federal whistle-blower agency, described an operating room infested with flies, veterans with crippling spinal damage that might have been prevented, and surgical instruments that are obsolete and sometimes unsterile.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin fired hospital Director Danielle Ocker and Chief of Staff James Schlosser who will shuffled off to other duties, according to ABC News<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ocker and Schlosser acknowledged significant cuts in services, such as the elimination of cataract surgery, and administrative problems, such as ordering a $1 million nuclear medicine camera but never installing it because it was too big for the examination room. As a result, the hospital stopped offering nuclear stress tests for heart disease risk and bone scans that can detect tumors this year.<\/p>\n

But Ocker and Schlosser said they were surprised that so many medical staff members reported the problems to federal investigators. They said the hospital was addressing the shortcomings and patient safety hasn’t been compromised.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Globe also noted that the hospital was rated one of the best VA facility in the country until their report.<\/p>\n

Despite the problems at the facility, it was in 2016 given four out of five stars by the Department of Veterans Affairs, which, before the story was published, defended that decision.<\/p>\n

The whistle-blowers have alleged that the four top administrators, including Schlosser, the only doctor, were more concerned with performance ratings than with properly treating the roughly 25,000 veterans who go to Manchester for outpatient care and day surgery annually. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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