Their job to come in and do this. Im not sure that they want to have a clean investigation. And so they did ask us to stand down a third party investigator, but i know the superintendent has expressed his dismay to me about how hes worried about the time for that. So we agree. Okay. Well, in the case of mr. Wayne, there were no allegations against him. There were no allegations, to my knowledge, that he knew and looked the other way. What about the case where that is not true. What about the case where the superintendent of a National Park is implicated, how do you deal with that situation. Its very important that we have somebody from the outside managing that process so that you dont have any problems, if you will, tainting an investigation, right. So our policies to develop in one example we have a different region, an eeo director from a different Regional Office of the other park to direct the investigation and to work with the Regional Office. In our chain we have seven regions t
Despite what i think is tremendous leadership on the part of the va and new secretary, its just not working and the people who are delivering that care in the front lines are suffering and whats even more important, the people that they serve are suffering and weve got to have a big bold path forward to fix this. With that i yield back to the chair. Thank you. Mr. Kauffman, youre recognized. We get scope of practice questions here in the congress relative to the veterans administration. I think a lot of these issues have been resolved down at the state level before state legislatures and ive been on both sides of it as a state legislature where i think they are Better Qualified at the state level to make those decisions. They can have hearings and they know that the docs providers within their communities. I guess my question to you is, clearly people that well, my question to you is, what do you think about devolving the scope of practice issues down to reflect whatever the standards
Dashcam ra dashcamera evidence. We have not. In colorado the dashcameras are used routinely by the Colorado State patrol. It is left up to the individual officers when they want to use individual cameras. From a prosecutors point of view this hasnt been a difficult tool to employ . No the with respect to dash cameras, senator. The complexity is logarithms when i understand. Mr. Henderson the only reason were probably having this hearing is because of these private videos that have shocked everybody. You agree with that . I do. In those cases, were glad we have video evidence. I mean youve got the North Charleston case thats in litigation so ill be careful of what i say. But in that case only god knows what the story would have been. Youre absolutely right. Its these private videos that have really motivated the public debate. As i said earlier you deserve great credit for convening this conversation. On balance, if you could get the right protocols to protect privacy and make sure the
Whats even more important, the people that they serve are suffering and weve got to have a big bold path forward to fix this. With that i yield back to the chair. Thank you. Mr. Kauffman, youre recognized. We get scope of practice questions here in the congress relative to the veterans administration. I think a lot of these issues have been resolved down at the state level before state legislatures and ive been on both sides of it as a state legislature where i think they are Better Qualified at the state level to make those decisions. They can have hearings and they know that the docs providers within their communities. I guess my question to you is, clearly people that well, my question to you is, what do you think about devolving the scope of practice issues down to reflect whatever the standards are within the given states that these va facilities are in . Number one and obviously want to make sure the providers are credentialed and trained to perform those duties within the scope
The form of non v. A. Care and choice care to get this right. If i can make two quick observations. Youre absolutely spot on. First of all we have to force ourselves to make certain decisions about what care can be most efficiently delivered in the community. So weve talked before my example the chairman remembers optometry. Why would we send a veteran 100 miles to get his eyes checked and get some glasses . We can do that anywhere. We wouldnt we routinely be referring that out to the community unless a veteran really wants to come to va. We are learning right now, again working to manage towards requirements rather than just a budget number, every time we improve access to care with a new facility, with additional staff, demand changes. Part of what were trying to understand are what are the dynamics. For example, you look in phoenix where we know were under penetrated in the veteran market. We improve access to care and we get a disproportionate response back. Weve got to understand