The ongoing and embarrassing scandal involving the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs continues to plague our nation, further underlying the needed reforms for the agency tasked with providing health care to our veterans.
According to a new report, the Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center touted its 20-person transgender program while failing to provide 100,000 other veterans with “safe” care at their facility.
The Inspector General’s report stated “We could not gain reasonable assurance that clinical managers effectively monitor the professional competency of providers … patient equipment is clean … [and] employees ensure a safe and healthy environment.”
From The Daily Caller:
The hospital in question was the subject of positive news coverage in late 2015, with a publicity campaign surrounding the opening of a “clinic for transgender patients.” Veterans are able to receive taxpayer-funded sex change hormones, CBS News reported at the time.
“Opening this transgender clinic allows us to continue to provide compassionate care in a space dedicated specifically to transgender veterans,” Susan Fuehrer, the hospital’s director, told the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
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Despite politically correct news reports emphasizing the 20 transgendered patients, basic care and treatment for the remaining 111,000 veterans who depend on Louis Stokes Cleveland VA has been lacking, the IG found.
There are “system weaknesses in credentialing and privileging, utilization management, patient safety, environmental cleanliness … and Mental Health Residential Rehabilitation Treatment Program processes” for the remaining veteran population, reported the IG.
One has to assume that political correctness was a motivating factor explaining why the supposed medical needs of 20 transgender individuals should outweigh those of 100,000 vets.
The Daily Caller notes that the Cleveland VA’s treatment of America’s veterans was so bad that “[t]he percentage of patients having to use the emergency room, instead of primary care, was twice as great as the VA overall.”
While the left celebrated the transgender program and continued to push their social experimentation through the military, they turned a blind eye to the lack of adequate medical care every veteran deserves.
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