{"id":7970,"date":"2024-02-28T06:03:44","date_gmt":"2024-02-28T11:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/?p=7970"},"modified":"2024-02-28T06:03:46","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T11:03:46","slug":"granitegrok-manchester-va-whistleblower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/?p=7970","title":{"rendered":"GraniteGrok: Manchester VA Whistleblower"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

From the GraniteGrok<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whistleblower: The Manchester VA is A Microcosm of Everything Wrong With the Federal Government<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI feel like I\u2019ve stepped back in time.\u201d An all-too-common phrase recited by almost every healthcare provider when they start working at the Manchester Veteran\u2019s Affairs (VA) Medical Center after working in the private sector.  We all joke about our period of \u201cVA culture shock,\u201d but when the fog clears, it becomes clear that something is very wrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Something systemic that extends far beyond the crumbling walls of the VA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read the complete post HERE<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Manchester VA Whistleblower Part 2: Federal Oversight of Manchester VA<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is the message encouraging employees at the Manchester Veteran\u2019s Affairs (VA) Medical Center to report violations of federal law, regulation, or policy. Several agencies are tasked with oversight of VA programs and investigation of complaints, including fraud, waste, abuse, and gross mismanagement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read the complete post HERE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From the GraniteGrok Whistleblower: The Manchester VA is A Microcosm of Everything Wrong With the Federal Government \u201cI feel like I\u2019ve stepped back in time.\u201d An all-too-common phrase recited by almost every healthcare provider when they start working at the Manchester Veteran\u2019s Affairs (VA) Medical Center after working in the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7971,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7970\/revisions\/7971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}