The purpose of the VA is not to help Veterans.
The purpose of the VA is to help the employees and the Democrat Party.
Posted on 12/03/2015 5:00:41 AM PST by george76
The Denver Veterans Affairs hospital has taken tremendous fire for cost overruns of a billion dollars, but a new report shows that, had the VA engaged in better planning and real-time accountability, the facility could have looked like the new Parkland hospital in Dallas, which finished almost on time and on budget.
A new report from the National Center for Policy Analysis compares reconstruction efforts at the VA hospital in Denver with the redesign of the Parkland hospital, which has quickly become one of the busiest hospitals in the country. Parkland features the second-largest burn unit and ranks in sixth place for number of births per year.
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Leadership launched a plan to revamp the entire facility, bringing in three working groups to plan and design the new complex. The board also brought on liaisons to ensure synergy between design and hospital staff.
The hospital, twice the size of the original, opened in August 2015 and has since won numerous awards. In total, the hospital cost $1.27 billion and receiving 60 percent funding from taxpayers and 40 percent from private donors as part of a public-private partnership.
Parkland project managers hired an independent auditor for the reconstruction efforts. The auditor frequently released budget reports to the public and real-time budget updates to planners. This enabled adjustment on the fly.
In contrast, the disastrous Denver VA hospital has run a billion dollars over budget. Even though discussion for the new facility started in the 1990s, the hospital won't open until 2017. In the beginning, officials rejected renovation proposals of $30 million and $200 million since they wanted a stand-alone facility.
Architects worked in complete isolation for four years, having no proposed project budget and no contact with hospital design experts.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
The people that built america are dead and the dregs are too stupid to run the show.
“The people that built america are dead and the dregs are too stupid to run the show.”
That is NOT TRUE!
Here is how the best hospital in the country continues to reinvent itself and serve the community. Stanford Hospital is the gold standard by which all medical care facilities should be judged. And it’s far, far from just the physical plant. There isn’t one person who works there who isn’t committed to service to the patients. Ask anyone who has had to avail themselves of Stanford’s unparalleled services.
http://www.sumcrenewal.org/projects/project-overview/stanford-hospital/
The purpose of the VA is not to help Veterans.
The purpose of the VA is to help the employees and the Democrat Party.
Zackly! Remember, these ARE government workers.
The purpose of the VA is not to help Veterans.
The purpose of the VA is to help the employees and the Democrat Party.
has the VA stopped murdering Veterans through neglect? Has anyone been held accountable for this?
"Should be" and "are" are two different things.
The multi-headed beast that is the Dept. of Veterans Affairs needs a scorched-earth reset from the office of Da Preezy on down to the charge nurse at the ward.
——The purpose of the VA is to help the employees and the Democrat Party.-——
The above is a corollary to “the purpose of the Department of Education is to promote and ensure the well being of educators”
Have to have a top notch lawyer to fight the department of injustice which protects fed union co-employees.
Stanford may be as you say, but Stanford sets the bar High for itself and tends to take of the best of the best..there by reducing the compentency pool for the rest of America(which I don’t mean as a criticism). There are islands of light but the general drift in America has been a loss of generally competent folks who keep the clocks working, the lightbulbs changed, the plants watered, the toilet paper in public bathrooms stocked, those hidden corners in elevators swept(I noted a cigarette butt in such a corner once that that was there for 5 years and is probably still there!)
Hospitals are insisting on basic higher degrees for their nurses beyond ADN or 3 year diplomas. Now one would think that is a good thing until you realize that the BSN’s stay at the bedside for about a year or 2, then move to get administrative jobs or go on to NP or nurse anesthetist school! Hospitals lose 30 per cent of such nurses over 3-4 year cycles and the pool of wise bedside nurses who are 10 to 20 years experienced is rapidly shrinking or being forced out because of their age(top salary scale, considered too expensive despite that they may have good health and some 10 to 15 years to go before retirement) or lack of artificial credentials. Thus, we see a growing younger population of nurses ill equipped and not experienced enough to weather the sudden weird twists and turns that can happen with patients. We are also seeing as well much learned helplessness and lack of strong self reliance in the newly arrived millenials. They quickly get tired of the drudgery having no strong root in themselves and they soon leave for perceived easier jobs with promised higher salaries and benefits! Thus we see large average churn rates in bedside RN’s with almost 75 per cent turn overs averaged over 6 years...which means as a new or experienced RN, there is a 75 percent chance you’ll have gone on to different pastures by the end of 5 years!
“Still, the VA handed out bonuses to several of the officials involved in the Denver hospital project.”
Everyone gets a trophy. Those who spend the most money get a solid gold, diamond trimmed version, down to clay for vets.
Because VA “management” is totally unaccountable.
There is no incentive for them to apply standard business practices in the performance of their duties.
“”Should be” and “are” are two different things.
The multi-headed beast that is the Dept. of Veterans Affairs needs a scorched-earth reset from the office of Da Preezy on down to the charge nurse at the ward.”
While I would agree, I have to tell you that years ago my father, who was a WWII vet was treated for what ended up being terminal cancer at the Palp Alto, CA VA hospital (which is locate a stones throw from Stanford). Back then, Stanford doctors actually treated my father at the VA so the costs of the treatment could be borne by the VA. Despite the known manifold problems with the VA and the need for a wholesale overhaul, I will always have a soft spot in my heart for the Palo Alto VA Hospital. The VA is a victim of the current government’s inability to do anything, coupled with the PE unions who stand in the way of change and the getting rid of underperforming employees. We simply have to get rid of almost all our elected officials and start over, particularly the GOPe, because they are suborning the behavior of their RAT counterparts.
Citing an exception doesn’t make the point. As civilization recedes by way of moslem perpetual violence, fewer are around to maintain the level of tech competence which we see as normal.
Veterans Affairs started down the sewer pipe when it was (for political pandering purposes) made a cabinet level department. Repeal of the 1988 act would be the first step in fixing things.
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