Cheyenne Wy Va Problem

[Berta]

"Veterans Affairs worker in Wyoming placed on leave in patient delay scandal

(Reuters) - A Veterans Affairs healthcare coordinator was placed on administrative leave on Friday following revelations of an email sent last year outlining a scheme for masking delayed treatment of patients at a VA medical facility in Wyoming, CBS News reported."

http://news.msn.com/us/veterans-affairs-worker-in-wyoming-placed-on-leave-in-patient-delay-scandal-report


Fox News just obtained the email.

"Yes, it is gaming the system a bit," Newman wrote in the email, according to CBS. The message added that when workers exceed the 14-day measure "the front office gets very upset."

[Navy04]

Nothing surprises me with the VA anymore. I have been waiting a year for a few surgeries that I need.

[johnjjr]

It's beginning to look more and more like a system-wide issue than an isolated problem in Phoenix. The sad thing is that more vets will die due to the callous attitude of VA's upper management. There is no quick fix to this problem but callous upper management must be fired, not given paid vacations (aka administrative leave).

[Berta]

Cheyenne VA email I mentioned

[GuaymasJim]

Berta, I grew up in Cheyenne. I walked past the VA everyday going to school. Didn't really know what it was--just red brick buildings and beautiful manicured lawns. My problems with the VA started the first minute I walked into the facility as a veteran when I was told that, "We don't want your kind here. You Vietnam veterans are all trouble-makers and rabble rousers." What a self fulling prophecy that turned out to be. Like so often happens, I turned into what was expected of me. The confrontation incident mentioned in some other posts occurred at the Cheyenne VA. The falsified medical records occurred at the Cheyenne VA. There was a picture on the front page of the Cheyenne newspaper of me camped out in a tent on those manicured lawns protesting mistreatment of veterans in 1974. Even worse, their BS cause my medical condition to go seven years without proper diagnosis and treatment.

It was a rats nest of cronyism and corruption then; and things don't seem to have changed in 41 years.

If anyone thought the scheduling scandal was confined to Phoenix, they have ignored the history of other VA scandals like "shreddergate" etc.

[RUREADY]

if anyone have a problem about your health care now is the time

to speak up and be heard and you can help the next vet going through

this stuff.

[john999]

I had to call and cancel a dental appointment just to have my teeth cleaned. It will take me 4 months to get another appointment. As it is I get only one exam every two years. The VA refused to do an implant for me or do a crown on another tooth that had a root canal. What standard of dental care are they using.....early Soviet Union? I will just go private from here on the dental. The VA refused to do cataract surgery on me though I had 20/800 in my right eye. Medicare did it and I got a great doctor to do it but there were costs not covered by Medicare. I really would not let the VA do any major surgery on me if I had some alternative. I don't even want them to fix my ingrown toenail. I might get another staff infection. These staff infections are no joke. I am lame in one foot due to one of these infections. In a place like the VA where thousands of patients come and go the chances of getting MRSA is quite high. You can lose a foot or an eye pretty damn quick. Substandard care at the VA has been around for years. It is also a problem at private hospitals and doctor's offices. Don't let a doctor do in office surgeries. I wonder at all the cataract surgeries where staff is a risk. The operation I had to remove the necrotic tissue in my foot from the staff was major to me. I was laid up for six weeks.

John