NY Times – The push to improve the performance ranking of Roseburg VA pits doctors and caregivers against facility administrators who put veterans lives at risk to improve ratings.
In the chase for higher bonuses through better performance metrics, Roseburg VA administrators are putting veterans lives at risk while interfering with medical decisions made by staff to provide medical care.
The Department of Veterans Affairs uses an internal rating metric from one star to five stars to evaluate the quality of care and other important factors. While the attempt to rate quality seems vital, but VA administrators have figured out how to rig the game. To evade lower ratings or penalties, they refuse to provide certain treatments or even to admit certain patients when doing so puts their rating at risk.
Administrators at Roseburg VA are no different.
The practice is generally referred to as “unauthorized practice of medicine†and is generally regarded as the practice of medicine without a license. It occurs when someone gives medical advice or treatment without a professional license. It can also occur when a nonlicensed person dictates the medical care a person receives.
At Roseburg VA, one of the poorest rated VA medical centers in the country, veterans lives are put at risk by hospital administrators trying to score points for promotions and bonuses.
These administrators rig the system by denying care using a death panel called a “utilization management team†that dictates who will be admitted based on the likelihood of positive outcome instead of need or ability to provide care. Needed care for very ill veterans is refused or rationed in favor of less costly and less risky procedures to boost positive outcomes while keeping costs down.
While the NY Times stopped short of calling this spade a spade, I did it for them – Roseburg VA Medical Center is overtly engaged in rationing healthcare using a death panel that overrules decisions made by facility medical doctors treating the actual veteran.
Not only is the scheme at the facility unethical, and a form of medical malpractice, it is intentionally refusing health care VA is required by law to provide in an effort to rig the system for improved performance numbers and higher bonuses.
As you read the following excerpt, please note over half Roseburg VA’s beds sit empty and the facility director received a substantial bonus for improving Roseburg’s star rating in 2016....
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This is genius, actually.
Trump tweeted that he deserves credit for no commercial airline crashes in 2017.
— Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) January 2, 2018
What else can I add to that? The man is either insane or trolling the world.
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I am afraid to look:Trump tweeted that he deserves credit for no commercial airline crashes in 2017.
— Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) January 2, 2018
What else can I add to that? The man is either insane or trolling the world.
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I looked.
He did.
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I looked.
He did.
What is wrong with him? How can he take credit for that? He controls plane flights how?
It was a wild run. Too wild, in fact, even for Trump. Shortly after the unhinged New Yorker interview published online, the president began polling aides in the White House, inquiring about the Mooch’s mental state during the interview.
“Is he on drugs?†Trump earnestly asked those around him, according to two White House officials and another Trump confidant.
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BUCKHANNON, W.V. — The coal mines haven’t quite reopened, but here in this small West Virginia town, voters see real progress a year into Donald Trump’s presidency.
— Matt Fuller (@MEPFuller) January 2, 2018
“He’s been very good on commercial aviation,†says Chuck Stub, 54, an out-of-work Trump voter. “Very strict.†https://t.co/YiHapD5Osv
David Bohrman, former Current TV President and former CNN Washington bureau chief and chief innovation officer at CNN Worldwide, is launching a new over-the-top (OTT) video service that will cater to progressive Americans, called the Political Voices Network (PVN).
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An announcement from Senator Orrin G. Hatch. #utpol pic.twitter.com/UeItaLjR3j
— Senator Hatch Office (@senorrinhatch) January 2, 2018
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PUHLEEZ.An announcement from Senator Orrin G. Hatch. #utpol pic.twitter.com/UeItaLjR3j
— Senator Hatch Office (@senorrinhatch) January 2, 2018
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