Terrible. Help is on the way. Some serious house cleaning will happen by middle of next year.
I am from the government and I am here to help you....die.
It appears that WND has this story wrong somehow. The VA does not control state veterans facilities, as far as I know. Just sayin’
“A physician’s assistant and three nurses, including the director of nursing, resigned in the wake of the investigation, said Shane Faulkner, a spokesman for the VA. “All four chose to resign before the termination process began,” Faulkner said.”
They need to round up these chickenshits and prosecute them for manslaughter!
I’ve said it a few times since Election Day and I’ll say it again.
After taking office, Trump needs to call a meeting (at the White House) of ever VA District manager and VA Hospital manager. it needs to be one of these “Come To Jesus” meetings. Trump will chair the meeting, not the head of Veterans Affairs.
The word must get out immediately that conditions WILL improve immediately or in short hellfire will come down on all of their heads - job loss, lawsuits against the employees BY the govt, etc.
Besides being the right thing to do, Trump will score positive political points with the public by showing him standing up for the veterans.
ALL of these criminal a$$holes need to be gone by the first of February!
Wouldn’t these people be criminally liable for the man’s death thru negligence?.................
Soon the VA will be handed back over the adults
I don’t understand why anyone would go to a VA hospital for anything.
There are plenty of hospitals that would have treated them regardless of their ability to pay.
Wouldn’t it be nice if all the tax $$s spent to feed, house and provide medical care for illegals and moslem refugees were spent on our priceless veterans?
Got a son-in-law not getting medical care he needs now from the VA. Iraq war related. Thankfully, daughter has a good enough job with sufficient insurance to get him better care. My heart bleeds for every veteran without options. Federal or State, they deserve it before anyone. By anyone, I do include myself. Zerocare has shafted me, but my son-in-law and every other veteran we have is more important. /soapbox
Almost all of my family’s veterans are gone.. uncles, brothers and old family friends and neighbors..
It is sad to see so many reports of the horrid treatment or abuse inflicted on so many who gave so much .. heads should roll.. anything less is a slap in all our veterans faces.
The VA has earned scorn, but one of my first jobs as a young medical student was picking maggots out of wounds at a VA ER.
There are people that choose to live on the streets, some of them Vets. The only time I ever saw maggots was when they brought a hobo in to be looked at. Usually, we had to peel their cloths off with the boundary between skin, dirt and clothing being unclear.
Tragic and unnecessary!
Pete Hegseth for VA Secretary! He will clean house ruthlessly!
May God bless Owen Reese Peterson.
This may indeed be a case of neglect, but they do use maggots today in wounds that won’t heal. Maggots clean away the dead tissue, and help make wounds heal faster.
All veterans after serving should get an automatic $10,000/month pension and free healthcare for themselves and immediate family members.
Good enuf fer government work.
The Vet may have actually received better as maggots are now front line therapy to keep wounds debrided.
From what I can read we can’t determine his actual state prior to or at time of death. Death is always hard on everyone. I am sorry for his families loss.
All that being said, I have received care ast four VA hospitals. Two were stellar institution and two were not.
Back in the 1970s, the Kansas City VA hospital was nearly shut down by the KCMO Dept of Health. It was infested with vermin (rats & mice,) had serious fly & roach infestations, and maggots were reported in the wounds of more than one patient.
What’s most disturbing is that the federal government is not doing anything about the entire VA system “scandal.”
I’m hoping that Trump will order the new AG to begin RICO investigations against EVERY VA administrator, in DC & the individual hospitals, where records were falsified.
I’m hoping that there’s a special place in hell reserved for those “people” who participated in the cover-ups and mistreatment of our veterans.
Mark