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10,000 Veterans Exposed to HIV at VA Hospital?
Posted on June 16, 2009
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Danny "Greasy" Belcher, Executive Director
Task Force Omega of KY Inc.
Vietnam Infantry Sgt. 68-69
"D" Troop 7th Sqdn. 1st Air Cav
I used to have all the faith in the world in the VA health system. After working in a VA Hospital years ago and talking to people who are now associated with the VA Hospital, I do not feel like the care is all that great. The doctors and nurses are under pressure to keep the NUMBER of patients seen up. They are on the express lane with veteran health care. As one person in the VA helth care system said,"it is not about health care anymore."
I do not have that warm and fuzzy feeling when I go to the VA Hospital anymore. It may be healthier for me to avoid the VA health care until the quality improves.
It is time for unannounced congressional investigations of the VA Hospitals. The doctors, nurses, clerks, and other employees need to talk without supervisors or administration personnell in their presence. The truth they talk about may not be good but we need the truth and not just good numbers at our VA Hospitals. A veterans' life could be at stake.
This story is from ABC News U.S.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=7836367
Hearing to Air VA Mistakes With Hospital Equipment
VA to tell House panel about mistakes with equipment used for colonoscopies, other procedures
By BILL POOVEY Associated Press Writer
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. June 14, 2009 (AP
A congressional panel is pressing the Department of Veterans Affairs to disclose on Tuesday whether non-sterile equipment that may have exposed 10,000 veterans to HIV and other infections was isolated to three Southeast hospitals or is part of a wider problem.
"Somebody is going to have to take responsibility," said U.S. Rep. Phil Roe of Tennessee, the ranking Republican on the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs' oversight and investigation subcommittee.
The subcommittee scheduled Tuesday's hearing in Washington to discuss mistakes involving endoscopic equipment used for colonoscopies and other procedures at its hospitals in Miami, Murfreesboro, Tenn., and Augusta, Ga. with top agency officials and to receive a yet-unreleased report by the VA's inspector general.
Roe said he had not yet seen the report but was told in a briefing Friday that the VA's inspector general conducted a random check on 42 VA locations.
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