Pittsburgh VA employees say supply shortages are impacting patient care

[yortsed snacilbuper]

Nurses have run out of sterile sponge gauze to help prevent infections around tracheotomy tubes. Custodians have run out of bleach to disinfect rooms. Lab workers have run out of gauze to help prevent bleeding after drawing blood.

It began when the primary vendor supplying the Pittsburgh VA, and other VA medical centers in the region, was switched in December 2016. The move was part of a national effort to improve the VA’s supply chain management, last year, which included a new national VA goal of not keeping supplies on hand for more than 30 days.

The result was that the Pittsburgh VA’s primary vendor switched from Cardinal Health — which has a distribution center in Warrendale — to American Medical Depot, known as AMD — whose nearest distribution center is in King of Prussia, near Philadelphia.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/pittsburgh-va-employees-say-supply-shortages-are-impacting-patient-care/ar-AAEhUND?ocid=spartanntp

[Submariner]

1. Well that's just tough shit for them and veterans need to STFU

Trump prefers military personnel that don't get injured, that don't use tracheotomy tubes and gauze clean up materials. That money is better spent on a fucking July 4th Lala-fucking palooza throwing away money on a flyover and a Sherman tank showing off its big penis, oops.. I mean canon barrel.

The veterans need to STFU and stop wanting to spend money on getting healthy.

[Vinca]

2. Wonder who is profiting from AMD.

[Tanuki]

3. I wonder if this is yet another screwed up result of MF45 allowing 3 of his Mar-a-lago cronies

to secretly run the VA?

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/02/08/mar-a-lago-veterans-takano-1159355

"House Veterans Affairs Committee Chairman Mark Takano(D-Calif.) today opened an investigation into the outsized role of three members of President Donald Trump's Florida country club in a digital health record contract and other VA business.

In a letter to VA Secretary Robert Wilkie, Takano requested extensive documents including all records of communication between the Mar-a-Lago members and their companies with current or former senior VA officials.

POLITICO broke the news last April that Marvel Entertainment Chairman Ike Perlmutter, physician Bruce Moskowitz and lawyer Marc Sherman were deeply involved in contract decisions that led to the $10 billion contract with Cerner Corp. to implement a new EHR for the VA. ProPublica has provided additional details, including evidence that Moskowitz tried to benefit his son's foundation through the VA."...(more)