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A VA Medical Center in Colorado Paused Heart Surgeries for 13 Months. Its Leaders Didn't Tell Higher
« on: June 30, 2024, 10:04:37 am »
A VA Medical Center in Colorado Paused Heart Surgeries for 13 Months. Its Leaders Didn't Tell Higher-Ups.
 
Military.com | By Patricia Kime
Published June 27, 2024 at 4:45pm ET

Heart surgeries were paused at the Department of Veterans Affairs medical center in Aurora, Colorado, for more than a year in 2022 and 2023 as a result of changes made by leaders who cultivated a "culture of fear" at the hospital, the VA Office of Inspector General has found.

Two reports released Monday by the VA's top watchdog found that the facility paused cardiac surgeries from June to July 2022 and again from September 2022 to October 2023. Leadership told their regional directors of the first pause but did not inform them or the VA's Central Office in Washington, D.C., of the second, longer suspension.
 
The VA OIG said the pauses did not directly contribute to patient harm, but the toxic work environment, explored in a separate investigation, jeopardized patient safety.

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2024/06/27/va-medical-center-colorado-paused-heart-surgeries-13-months-its-leaders-didnt-tell-higher-ups.html
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Re: A VA Medical Center in Colorado Paused Heart Surgeries for 13 Months. Its Leaders Didn't Tell Hi
« Reply #1 on: June 30, 2024, 10:05:14 am »
Did they treat illegals instead? :whistle:
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Re: A VA Medical Center in Colorado Paused Heart Surgeries for 13 Months. Its Leaders Didn't Tell Hi
« Reply #2 on: June 30, 2024, 10:56:08 am »
Top level incompetence and toxicity.  The VISN director and Chief Medical Director didn't even know that the hospital's cardiac unit's staff had quit and it had ceased functioning for over a year!
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Re: A VA Medical Center in Colorado Paused Heart Surgeries for 13 Months. Its Leaders Didn't Tell Hi
« Reply #3 on: June 30, 2024, 10:58:44 am »
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The VA OIG said the pauses did not directly contribute to patient harm

How can delaying necessary heart surgery (presumably necessary because it would not be done were it not) NOT contribute to patient harm?

Reduced cardiac function affects all organ systems, and generally not for the better.
That nonsense is more suited to the stockyards at Greeley than a hospital in Aurora.
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Re: A VA Medical Center in Colorado Paused Heart Surgeries for 13 Months. Its Leaders Didn't Tell Hi
« Reply #4 on: June 30, 2024, 12:13:24 pm »
Quote from: Smokin Joe on June 30, 2024, 10:58:44 am
How can delaying necessary heart surgery (presumably necessary because it would not be done were it not) NOT contribute to patient harm?

Harm implies survival.  Maybe if patients died, it wasn't considered as harming them.
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