{"id":79194,"date":"2018-05-02T08:27:34","date_gmt":"2018-05-02T12:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=79194"},"modified":"2018-05-02T08:27:34","modified_gmt":"2018-05-02T12:27:34","slug":"salt-lake-city-va-apologizes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=79194","title":{"rendered":"Salt Lake City VA apologizes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=79195\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-79195\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Salt-Lake-488x333.jpg?resize=488%2C333\" alt=\"\" width=\"488\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-79195\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Salt-Lake.jpg?resize=488%2C333&amp;ssl=1 488w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Salt-Lake.jpg?resize=300%2C205&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Salt-Lake.jpg?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 488px) 100vw, 488px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Christopher Wilson, a veteran who who was being treated at Salt Lake City VA Medical Center took pictures of the examination room which his father sent out in a Tweet;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">My son is a Veteran of the United States Army. He went to the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/VA?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#VA<\/a> in Salt Lake City yesterday. This was the condition of the room he was seen in. Very unprofessional, unsanitary and disrespectful. Please retweet. Maybe <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@realDonaldTrump<\/a> will see it. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/P4CMQeE74t\">pic.twitter.com\/P4CMQeE74t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Stephen Wilson (@GR8_2B_alive) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GR8_2B_alive\/status\/989902114624126976?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 27, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The hospital has apologized, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/m.tucsonnewsnow.com\/story\/38070272\/we-dont-seem-to-be-a-priority-veteran-posts-photos-of-dirty-va-exam-room\">Tucson News<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dr. Karen Gribbin, the chief of staff at the Salt Lake VA, has apologized to Wilson and is investigating why the room was a mess.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was taken aback by the condition of the room. The patient, Mr. Wilson, should not have been placed in the room in that condition,\u201d Gribbin said.<\/p>\n<p>Gribbin calls the incident a rare event but intends to review procedures with staff.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I do not want another veteran to experience this,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Wilson believes his experience highlights a problem across the VA.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m sure you could ask 1,000 different veterans, and each one of them will have their own story,\u201d he said. &#8220;It&#8217;s frustrating. I mean, I go to another hospital&#8217;s emergency room\u2026 [and] it&#8217;s such a different experience. They seem to actually care about getting you the care you need.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>These are regional problems &#8211; whenever I go to VA facilities, I&#8217;ve never seen the place like it is in the photos. <\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Eggs for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christopher Wilson, a veteran who who was being treated at Salt Lake City VA Medical Center took pictures of the examination room which his father sent out in a Tweet; My son is a Veteran of the United States Army. He went to the #VA in Salt Lake City yesterday. This was the condition of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":79195,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-veterans-affairs-department"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Salt-Lake.jpg?fit=500%2C341&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-kBk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/79195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}