{"id":73784,"date":"2017-08-03T12:39:30","date_gmt":"2017-08-03T16:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=73784"},"modified":"2017-08-03T12:39:30","modified_gmt":"2017-08-03T16:39:30","slug":"brian-hawkins-canned-at-va","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=73784","title":{"rendered":"Brian Hawkins canned at VA"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Back in April,<\/a> we talked about Brian Hawkins, who at the time was the director of the Washington, DC Veterans Affairs Medical Center. He was cached to a desk somewhere, still drawing his pay.<\/p>\n

Today we get the news from Fox<\/a> that he’s been canned after a deeper investigation;<\/p>\n

The report also noted that approximately $150 million worth of medical supplies had not been inventoried, leading to equipment shortages. In at least one instance earlier this year, the medical center ran out of bloodlines for dialysis patients and was only able to provide dialysis services because staff members borrowed bloodlines from a private hospital.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Fox5 DC<\/a> quotes from the VA statement announcing Hawkins’ firing;<\/p>\n

\u201cOn July 28, VA terminated the employment of former Washington DC VA Medical Center Director Brian Hawkins because he failed to provide effective leadership at the medical center,\u201d the Department of Veterans Affairs said in a statement. \u201cThis action underscores VA\u2019s commitment to holding all employees accountable if they fail to do their jobs or live up to VA\u2019s values.\u201d<\/p>\n

The statement goes on to address recent improvements under Washington DC VA Medical Center Director acting director Lawrence Connell saying the hospital is continuing aggressive recruiting and hiring efforts, implementing an Environmental Management Service support contract to supplement cleaning the facility, overhauled medical supply monitoring, inventoried and reorganized all of its primary supply areas in its warehouse and ordered 2,700 new medical instruments.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

When I used the DC VA facilities, it was a dangerous place and a playground for the homeless men in the area, few of whom were real veterans. I hope that changes under new leadership.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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