They also need to track the patient visits for all professionals including direct patient visits, resident sign off visits, phone consults... etc.
There are a lot of games the staff are using to look busy and have a lot of free time while working very little.
One major problem with VA management is that there is no vertical lines of authority.
You can be in charge of a unit but none of the employees in the unit answer to you.
Psychologists answer to the chief psychologist in the hospital.
Nurses answer to the chief nurse in the hospital.
Social workers answer to the chief social worker in the hospital.
Psychiatrists answer to the chief psychiatrist..
Physician’s Assistants answer to the chief PA for the hospital...
All horizontal lines of authority and it sucks... no authority in a management position.
ping
The bureaucrats at the VA are organized crime.
So..., much..., WINNING!
I would like to make a correction.
Trump did not come into office with a new broom to clean things up.
He came in with a fire hose!
At Bay Pines, there is a wait time even if you’re dead.
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The author's source materials do not say "fired." They say, "relieved from duty."
From this, we may deduce that the former director, while no longer working in that position, is still an employee of the VA.
firing bad employees?
That would be racist.
The new website to track wait times: http://www.accesstocare.va.gov
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Good news.
Today, I saw something I have never seen before. In the parking lot of the small town grocery store that I patronize, there was parked a big motor home like the kind touring musical groups use. It was from the VA. There was a man seated at a small table under the canopy. Not sure what was going on, but there was one sign that said something about available counseling. So perhaps he was there just to sign up people for that, but I am hoping he was also there help guys that are having trouble with any sort of issues because of the bureaucracy.
This is a very small town in a very sparsely populated county.