Published on May 31, 2017
White House Press Briefing with Secretary of Veterans Affairs David Shulkin
Veterans Secretary Shulkin White House Briefing Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin holds a press briefing at the White House. The head of the Department of Veterans Affairs is scheduled to make a rare, on-camera appearance in the White House briefing room Wednesday in what appears to be a step toward greater transparency at the agency charged with providing health care to nearly 9 million of the nation’s veterans. The White House did not say what VA Secretary David Shulkin — whose appearance at the podium comes on a day without an on-camera briefing by Press Secretary Sean Spicer — planned to discuss. It would be an unusual move, both for the VA and a Trump Cabinet secretary, to announce problems proactively rather than react to them after they are leaked to media or revealed publicly through investigations.
White House press secretary Sean Spicer is scheduled Tuesday to give his first on-camera daily press briefing since before U.S. President Trump left for his first foreign trip more than a week ago.
"VA still in critical condition, Secretary David Shulkin says,"
- www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/05/31/veterans-affairs-secretary-david-shulkin-state-of-va/102333422/
"VA still in critical condition, Secretary David Shulkin says; "Veterans are waiting 60 days or longer at more than 30 VA locations across the country," he said. "I'm a doctor and I like to diagnose things, assess them and treat them," Shulkin said. Shulkin said the agency has identified 14 VA facilities across the country that provide lower quality care than nearby private sector hospitals. They include three VA medical centers in Tennessee (Memphis, Nashville, and Murfreesburo), two in California (Loma Linda and Fresno), and two in Texas (El Paso and Big Spring).He said all received one star out of five in the VA's internal rating system, which the VA released publicly for the first time in December after USA TODAY obtained and published the internal ratings. Other facilities with a one star ranking include those in Detroit; Phoenix; Biloxi, Miss.; Dublin, Ga.; Fayetteville, N.C; White City, Ore.; and Fort Harrison, Mt. And he said he wants to expedite ways for nearby veterans to seek treatment in the private sector in the meantime.."
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https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/04/12/veterans-danger-va-hospital-washington-dc-investigation-finds/100376124/ //
We need new accountability legislative action and we need a much faster process in tracking what jobs are open in terms of nurse practitioners and other established nurses. Veterans should not have to be facing with the problems that they are now in terms of not having the access (since republicans like to talk about "allowing the access of sooo much winning), of being able to be able to get the help that they need on the spot instead of always having to wait hand and foot especially after they sacrificed their lives so that America is what it is today. It is just wrong and demeaning to see how the many other veterans had contracted various diseases because the clinic in the news was too sorry enough to even see if the blood that they were giving to some 100 vets or so was even sterile and viable to do a go head for a successful blood transfer. The clinic did not even bother to use the sanitized sterile equipment that they had access to because they did not want to have to bother with caring for "people" they did not even know and because they were old anyway!! UGH!
We need new accountability legislative action and we need a much faster process in tracking what jobs are open in terms of nurse practitioners and other established nurses. Veterans should not have to be facing with the problems that they are now in terms of not having the access (since republicans like to talk about "allowing the access of sooo much winning), of being able to be able to get the help that they need on the spot instead of always having to wait hand and foot especially after they sacrificed their lives so that America is what it is today. It is just wrong and demeaning to see how the many other veterans had contracted various diseases because the clinic in the news was too sorry enough to even see if the blood that they were giving to some 100 vets or so was even sterile and viable to do a go head for a successful blood transfer. The clinic did not even bother to use the sanitized sterile equipment that they had access to because they did not want to have to bother with caring for "people" they did not even know and because they were old anyway!! UGH!
