Posted on 04/13/2017 1:07:30 PM PDT by george76
Veterans will now have the opportunity to check wait times at the 1,700 Veterans Affairs facilities across the country.
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The new website is a must for the VA. The unforgivably long wait times at too many VA centers has plagued the agency and placed veterans in danger. At a Phoenix facility, veterans had to wait for care an average of 115 days.
The VA is also taking concrete steps of draining the swamp of bad employees. Under current law, some clinics' hands are tied over VA employees who engage in nefarious behavior. For instance, an employee in Houston who watched porn in front of patients was still allowed to keep his desk job for at least 30 days.
It seems Shulkin is done with delays. Shortly after an Office of Inspector General report found unsanitary conditions and inadequate equipment at a D.C. medical center, the director of the facility was promptly fired.
(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...
Union, union, union. Death lists were a sign that your care is based on limited choices. I paid to go to a good VA in NC, but I think the system is overwhelmed with 30 year olds coming to the ER for congestion, migraines, things they should be seeing a pcp for. My really wonderful PA had to retire for serious medical condition, so I quit going.
The VA clinic in Lewisburg WV was housed with some other govt agencies, but had to close for months and months due to air quality. At the time, WV was a union slavery state.
It’s too much trouble to reapply, so I am not planning on going back.
Air quality... btw.. the other agencies were open in the very same building. I called B Sanders office because he was the VA head at the time.
They told me, they didnt want to provide me with bad care, to which I replied.. no care is bad care.
Which good VA in NC? There are several VA’s in NC.
Good news.
Today, I saw something I have never seen before. In the parking lot of the small town grocery store that I patronize, there was parked a big motor home like the kind touring musical groups use. It was from the VA. There was a man seated at a small table under the canopy. Not sure what was going on, but there was one sign that said something about available counseling. So perhaps he was there just to sign up people for that, but I am hoping he was also there help guys that are having trouble with any sort of issues because of the bureaucracy.
This is a very small town in a very sparsely populated county.
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