Brian Hawkins canned at VA
Back in April, we talked about Brian Hawkins, who at the time was the director of the Washington, DC Veterans Affairs Medical Center. He was cached to a desk somewhere, still drawing his pay.
Today we get the news from Fox that he’s been canned after a deeper investigation;
The report also noted that approximately $150 million worth of medical supplies had not been inventoried, leading to equipment shortages. In at least one instance earlier this year, the medical center ran out of bloodlines for dialysis patients and was only able to provide dialysis services because staff members borrowed bloodlines from a private hospital.
Fox5 DC quotes from the VA statement announcing Hawkins’ firing;
“On July 28, VA terminated the employment of former Washington DC VA Medical Center Director Brian Hawkins because he failed to provide effective leadership at the medical center,” the Department of Veterans Affairs said in a statement. “This action underscores VA’s commitment to holding all employees accountable if they fail to do their jobs or live up to VA’s values.”
The statement goes on to address recent improvements under Washington DC VA Medical Center Director acting director Lawrence Connell saying the hospital is continuing aggressive recruiting and hiring efforts, implementing an Environmental Management Service support contract to supplement cleaning the facility, overhauled medical supply monitoring, inventoried and reorganized all of its primary supply areas in its warehouse and ordered 2,700 new medical instruments.
When I used the DC VA facilities, it was a dangerous place and a playground for the homeless men in the area, few of whom were real veterans. I hope that changes under new leadership.
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Sadly, he will probably press for reinstatement by a review board, I’m thinking.
It’s not that easy anymore
If the MPSB doesn’t reinstate him, THEN I’ll believe it isn’t going to cover him.
“Well, others in his same position sucked ass at leadership and you didn’t fire them, so you can’t fire him!”
Then you fire them all and take away that excuse.
I was under the belief that the so call VA accountability act made it easier for these
Turd to be shown the door. Damn I’m wrong again
Better late than never.
I guess we will see….
How many could have died because they couldn’t get dialysis? Hang the s.o.b.!
Firing is not adequate – unless a squad is involved.
Please, I’m trying to have lunch, but you have me cleaning up after spewing, choking, and coughing. You owe me a keyboard.
👍👍👍
But will he STAY shitcanned? Shitty bureaucrats like him get either reinstated or hired elsewhere from time to time.
Burn the place to the ground. With all the VA employees inside
Anyone notice a pattern among top honchos within the VA who are getting canned? Nah, must be a coincidence. Or something.
Discrimination lawsuit in 3 – 2 – 1 … DONE!
Then, one may hope for better days ahead for vets?
Meanwhile – Legendary D-Bag – Michael Hershman Northern Indiana VA Director is trying to hire a Interior Designer at GS 11 on USA Jobs.
Da Fuk
Must be a critical vacancy for the VA…
VA Puget Sound Health Care System – American Lake Division in Lakewood, WA (outside of Tacoma): Interior Designer Starting at $65,014 (GS-11) Permanent Full Time Open 08/01/2017 – 08/08/2017
Maybe Burch will get his job.
http://valorguardians.com/blog/?p=65892
Finally. It was beginning to look a if a VA employee was found murdering a vet inside a VA facility they would still not be fired.
Until the Merit Protection Selection Board says he’s fired he ain’t fired.
I’m sure we’d all love to see a tweet from POTUS saying, “That MPSB? Bad! Rehiring to maintain the swamp? Not happening on my watch, you’re fired!”
And then the WaPo will whine about how horribly people who are trying to help our vets are being treated.
Oh come on. The WaPo would never do that….
Sonovabitch should have been fired for wearing that shirt with the spread collar and too wide tie. After seeing the Muslim mayor of London wearing a shirt with that same collar on TV, I gave both of mine to away. As an African-American dressed like that, they should expel him from the brother in the hood society.
It’s that Marion Barry “kleptocrat” look…a D.C. tradition!
All the more reason for giving them away.
I only went one time to the VAMC-DC, to visit a patient, and I never returned.
It was definitely a racially hostile environment, with the security measures you see in prisons.
Not a friendly place at all.
Had a pal get evaluated there yesterday…had to bring a cheap plastic chair from the lobby into the “evaluator’s” office just so he could sit…you, know, consistent with “VA values”
Yesssss…another outstanding “leader” sent to the gallows.
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The V.A. Fired someone?
An administrator at that?
I have been a doctor at 2 different V.A.’s in two states and have found them to be the worst possible place to works a physician
It was interesting to me to see that the only veterans employed there were doctors
As near as I could tell, all the staff and Administrators were not vets.
When I was there, you could not be fired for anything.