VA chief outlines changes at hospitals nationwide
Source: Washington Post
Veterans Affairs Secretary David J. Shulkin on Wednesday announced an overhaul of the senior leadership overseeing almost two dozen troubled hospitals across the country following the release of a searing investigation into what the agency watchdog said were management failures that put patients at VA’s flagship medical center in the District at risk.
Shulkin said one senior regional official has been reassigned and two others retired as the agency cleans up management of large hospitals and clinics in the Washington area, New England, Phoenix and parts of California. He also said he has appointed 24 new facility directors in the last year, including in Maryland and Virginia, after outside teams identified low-performing hospitals.
“It is time for this organization to do business differently,” Shulkin said at a news conference at the Washington Medical Center. “These are urgent issues, and many of these issues are unacceptable.”
The personnel moves came as Shulkin tries to reassert control over the second-largest federal agency in the aftermath of a separate, critical report by Inspector General Michael J. Missal on a trip Shulkin took to Europe last summer. That report exposed deep factions in the agency’s senior leadership ranks, with Shulkin claiming that political appointees on his staff are trying to oust him.
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Full title that didn't fit: VA chief outlines changes at hospitals nationwide following report on alleged D.C. center mismanagement