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Video: VA whistleblower claims supervisors forced her to keep secret wait list
Hot air ^ | on June 26, 2014 | Ed Morrissey

Posted on 06/26/2014 7:47:20 AM PDT by george76

More whistleblowers are coming forward from the VA, but this woman from North Carolina gives a special insight into the way that wait-list fraud propagated within the system. Paulene DeWenter makes clear that the use of secret wait lists was no spontaneously-occurring method for front-line workers to deal with overstressed resources, but a deliberate strategy employed by VA management. DeWenter tells WITN that her boss told her to use the secret wait list method, or else she would buy DeWenter a bus pass — one way out of town

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DeWenter blew the whistle after one of the patients on her list died. The daughter of the veteran concurs, saying that the catalyst for DeWenter’s decision came after a confrontation between the two of them over her father’s lack of care in the two months preceding his death. DeWenter tells WITN that management at her facility has changed or deleted her notes on patient care, but she’s doing her best to make sure the unnecessary deaths from maintaining secret wait lists don’t get covered up again.

In New York, the VA doesn’t give out one-way bus passes, but they’re not much happier with whistleblowers. A nurse with 28 years on the job found herself in a cubicle facing suspension after she tried to report abuse, fraud, and stolen drugs:

(Excerpt) Read more at hotair.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia; US: North Carolina; US: Texas; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: az; nc; ny; va; vascandals; vawaitlistscandal; vawhistleblower; whistleblower

1 posted on 06/26/2014 7:47:20 AM PDT by george76
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To: george76

This current administration has to try to kill off as many civilian veterans as possible.

Its the only way to be sure. Plus, it makes the funding accessible for “other projects.”


2 posted on 06/26/2014 7:51:29 AM PDT by Bayard
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"Riviello also reported the theft of 5,000 vials of morphine from a locked drawer. She said the vials were refilled with saline solution, which was given to veterans in hospice care and in dire need of pain management. Riviello said the thief was a nurse who just got caught."

Now that's downright evil.

3 posted on 06/26/2014 7:53:13 AM PDT by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: Enterprise

If this breach of trust at the VA isn’t brought to “traditional “(how sad that such a clarification is even necessary) justice, every senior/elder can expect the same &/or worse under Obamacare’s undeniable ever tightening budget constraints.


4 posted on 06/26/2014 8:09:48 AM PDT by wtd
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Chilling isn’t it? Imagine you are a senior in deep debilitating pain. You go to the hospital, and they strap you down to keep you from hurting yourself more. Then to ease your pain, you get a dose of saline because someone stole the morphine.


5 posted on 06/26/2014 8:13:51 AM PDT by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: george76

The first thing everyone in boot camp learns is, “Shut up and quit complaining!” That is reinforced throughout your military career.
The bureaucrats in the VA know that and take advantage of it. No other business or organization could have gotten away with treating people like this.
The Obama Administration spent billions taking care of the VA employees who complained about their jobs and left the Veterans to die. They should be hung.


6 posted on 06/26/2014 8:23:53 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: george76

DeWenter tells WITN that her boss told her to use the secret wait list method, or else she would buy DeWenter a bus pass — one way out of town.

Where is the picture of her boss in handcuffs being led to jail?


7 posted on 06/26/2014 9:33:54 AM PDT by chiefqc
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