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Brett Snodgrass

Dr Social - VA Scandal: A Congressional Report on Hospital Failures - 0 views

  • Veterans Hospitals Systemic Problems Veterans Administration Healthcare Scandal VA Scandal Project Report on Hospital Systemic Failures
  • neglect of care
  • fix systemic failures
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  • KILLING VETERANS IN V.A. HOSPITALS
  • V.A.'s troubled history.
  • , there is hope that the exposure will motivate both, the judiciary executive and the legislative branch of the government to do something about the staggering number of preventable medical errors killing thousands of patients every year in American hospitals
  • fix endemic systemic failures in hospitals
  • code of silence
  • We have either been unable or we have refused to deal with such matters so far,
  • Hospitals' medical errors are now the third leading cause of death in the U.S.
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      front line workers are silenced, patient harm results.
  • because those working on the front line of care are never given the opportunity to help solve the problems
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    Front line workers are not given the opportunity to speak, and this results in medical errors, patient harm, cover ups. There is nothing unique to the Veterans Administration. This is the modus operandi in many healthcare departments. Dr. Daniel Goleman discusses unethical management at length in his books including the best seller "Social Intelligence." 
Brett Snodgrass

Veterans Health Administration Scandal - 0 views

The Veterans Affairs Scandal is evidence of systematic failure in healthcare oversight and regulation. This may partially be secondary to the 1986 Healthcare Quality Improvement Act that effectivel...

Healthcare Quality Improvement Amendment HCQIA 1986 HCQIA 1986 Healthcare Quality Improvement Amendment patient safety PtSafety VA Hospital Scandal

started by Brett Snodgrass on 08 Mar 15 no follow-up yet
Brett Snodgrass

Veterans Health Administration scandal of 2014 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

  • Veterans Health Administration scandal of 2014
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    "several other VA medical centers around the nation have been identified with the same problems as the Phoenix facility, and the investigations by the VA Inspector General, the Congress and others are widening"
Brett Snodgrass

Veterans Affairs Scandal - 0 views

  • Veterans Affairs Scandal
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    The Director at the Phoenix Hospital was fired. I guess that means if you blow the whistle, you get fired, if you lie about patient care, you get fired. Hmm.
Brett Snodgrass

Bad VA care may have killed more than 1,000 veterans, senator's report says - CNN.com - 0 views

  • Bad VA care may have killed more than 1,000 veterans, senator's report says
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    Unsafe care at the Veterans Administration may have killed up to 1,000 veterans according to a report released by a Senator.
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