Asheville, Salisbury NC VA Facilities

And probably one near you.

Asheville VA Hospital
had Severe Care Issues

After inquiry, federal officials told center to stop admitting patients to its nursing home

Federal officials told the Asheville veterans hospital to stop admitting patients to its nursing home in late 2004 after investigators found serious care problems.

Now this was in 2004, why weren’t bells going of in Congress, especially on the oversite committees handling VA concerns? Oh ya, Congress wasn’t putting in much time in Washington, to busy smoozing with their contributors and weren’t allowing the minority to carry out investigations and hearings, except for a few taking place in crowded basement rooms headed by the minority with the majority members no where in site!

This is the second N.C. veterans hospital at which the Observer has uncovered problems with patient care, including deaths.

That second facility is just a few miles north of me in Salisbury NC, which is now doing investigations and hearings called for by Mel Watt with two Republican Reps jumping on board After The Fact, one of them is a Vietnam Vet, Hayes, both also being staunch supporters of the runnagade administration, rubber stamping anything they’ve wanted!

"The incidents are disturbing," Adrien Creecy-Starks, with the VA in Washington, D.C., said in an e-mail Wednesday.

To say the least!

The Asheville investigation focuses on 4 cases, you can find them in report.

On heels of Salisbury findings

The attention to VA health care follows emotional congressional hearings this month about deplorable conditions for wounded soldiers at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C. Army hospitals are not part of the VA system, which provides health care for millions of veterans.

As I put in an LTE, to the Charlotte Observer last week, which to my surprise was printed in this past Sundays paper, this didn’t happen overnight. The two ‘johnny come lately’s’ were in the majority for the past 6yrs., under this administration, and the previous 5yrs. while looking for BJ's and other assorted Non-Societal needs, while adding to the maimed Veterans population with their rubberstamping, false patriotism and empty ‘Strong on Defense’ rethoric!

Than we have the following, which is a link at the above report.

COUNSELORS, ADVOCATES, HOT LINE IN PROPOSAL

House seeking fast action for veterans
Funny what a change in the seats of power can bring about.

But wait a minute: It proposes group to help wounded; White House says bill is premature

PREMATURE! Say What! They have us in Two War Theaters and a bill to help the Veterans of previous misadventures, and the growing numbers of the new Veterans, is PREMATURE!

What planet sent us their Arrogant, Ignorant Nitwits, that somehow managed to reap seats of leadership{?} and power, with our own ignorants supporting them?

Reacting to shabby treatment of wounded soldiers at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, the House on Wednesday voted to create a coterie of case managers, advocates and counselors for injured troops returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.
The Wounded Warrior Assistance Act, approved 426-0, also establishes a hot line for medical patients to report problems in their treatment and demands an end to the red tape that has frustrated disabled service members as they move from Pentagon to Veterans Affairs Department care.

While this should be applauded, it’s way overdue, Especially when the cheerleaders of War will Not want to fund this, as they have across the board on many issues pertaining to those they send to battle for them but don’t find a need to serve themselves or sacrifice a damn thing!

"We cannot allow those who have fought our foreign enemies in the defense of freedom to come home and fight the federal bureaucracy to get the health care they need," said Rep. Candice Miller, R-Mich., a member of the Armed Services Committee.

If we’d stop making ‘enemies’, over there, with our long running failed policies in government and business, we wouldn’t need to fight anyone, their numbers wouldn’t be growing, and we certainly aren’t fighting anyone to preserve our Freedoms, especially the conflicts of the past 40 or so years.

The White House, in a statement, said that while those goals are commendable, the legislation is premature.

Apparently no one has figured out how to make a buck off of it yet!

But lawmakers from both parties, intent to show support for troops regardless of divisions over the war in Iraq, are in no mood to wait.

Hmmmm, once again apparently the ‘johnny come lately’ past majority aren’t worried about making money for their contributors, their jumping onboard worrying about their job security in their comfortable power jobs.

The White House also objected to a provision imposing a one-year moratorium on a program letting private companies compete with public agencies for military hospital work contracts. The administration said the program, criticized for contributing to substandard conditions and inadequate nonmedical staffing at Walter Reed, is generating billions in savings.

Hey here’s where the Cons can find their duckets to wage their Debacle, Billions!
There’s a short list of other provisions at this report.

One thing with all these reports coming out. The greater majority of those in the VA System, that do the real work, are extremely dedicated and caring, especially those that do volunteer work, on a regular basis, it's what has kept many of these facilities still around!