Posted on 10/26/2014 7:10:29 AM PDT by cutty
The Department of Veterans Affairs is promoting an administrator who advised against publicly disclosing a deadly Legionnaires' outbreak at its Pittsburgh hospital system, the agency told Congress.
David Cord, deputy director of VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System since June 2012, will become director of the Erie VA Medical Center within 60 days, the VA informed Congress.
The VA disclosed the Legionnaires' outbreak that killed at least six and sickened at least 16 others on Nov. 16, 2012 — two days after Cord told a VA spokesman not to alert the public about it, according to an internal email from the spokesman obtained as part of a Tribune-Review investigation.
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Typical bureaucracy.
The real problem with government.
Very strange man-bug affinity.
One would have to have their head in the sand to be stunned by anything the bureaucrats do.
“What is it with Legionella and U.S. veterans?”
Legionella bacteria thrives in old, poorly maintained air conditioning systems, and VA hospitals are, for the most part, old and poorly maintained.
http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/legionnaires-disease/basics/causes/con-20028867
Obama finds the worst possible people to promote
There is much work to be done. The administration has many more old, worn-out, expensive-to-care-for Veterans to murder.
To promote the collapse faster
Stunned?
This legislator likes to say that, because only legislators have the power to change what’s going on in the VA
And corruption always, naturally, gets worse after it’s found out and not stopped
Let’s all recite the VA motto!
“Delete, Delay, Deny And Hope They Die!”
But you are right, a VA HVAC system would be perfect for growing Legionella.
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