cut the nonsense
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ER Staffing needed at Spokane VAMC. IM's or FP's or ER physicians needed to cover 24/7.
http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:XLKZ7Ad5yRoJ:www.healthyjobs.com/statejobsearch.cgi%3Flocation%3DWest%26pro%3D+Spokane+VAMC+ER+emergency+room&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=3
I didn't mean for it to be "nonsense." There is a difference in facilities- I don't know how it works in Spokane- I do know how it works here for us. Hubby has been going to different VA facilities in this area for many years. They keep changing the names of everything and it is confusing.
If this Spokane facility does have an ER and is a full-fledged VA hospital then I do think they should have cared for him and not sure why they didn't. They may have been negligent or they may have been right that they couldn't care for him, and needed 911. He was taken to a civilian hospital according to the article- why was that? This is still a poorly written article and did not ask or answer the right questions. Why would a full-fledged hospital close at 4:30? That sounds like a regular VA complex w/Drs. Then you posted the want ad for ER personnel so I am just confused now, they must have an ER of some sort.
Maybe a freeper in the area can tell us what sort of facility this really is- I know many VA facilities have down-graded and some have closed in the past few years.
Here is link to their review in 2000, it does list that they do acute and surgical care. Acute care sounds like ER to me but I am not a medical person. What happened does not make sense, they should either be able to handle emergencies or not and I still can't figure it out. There has to be some reason the man was taken to a civilian hospital.
http://www.va.gov/oig/CAP/00-02062-22.pdf#search=%22VA%20Medical%20Center%20Spokane%20%22