An Arkansas veterans hospital s poor oversight caused it to miss the errors made by a pathologist who was fired for being impaired on duty and pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter, according to an inspector general s report released Wednesday.
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A watchdog report from the Department of Veterans Affairs Office of the Inspector General found that an Arkansas VA hospital routinely allowed an inebriated pathologist to misdiagnose hundreds of patients.
The VA OIG initiated a health care inspection of the Veterans Health Care System of the Ozarks (VHSO) in Fayetteville in the spring of 2018 after receiving a complaint in late 2017 about the facility s Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Service.
The investigation was initiated after examining additional allegations related to the Path and Lab Service Chief, Dr. Robert M. Levy, misdiagnosing patients’ pathological specimens that adversely affected outcomes and altering quality management documents to conceal his errors, an executive summary of the report reads.
An Arkansas veterans hospital missed the errors made by a pathologist who pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter while working impaired due to its poor
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Consilium Staffing Lifts Up Military Veterans With Postcard Drive
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DALLAS, May 25, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Consilium Staffing, a premier locum tenens healthcare staffing firm bringing doctors and advanced practitioners to facilities nationwide, announced that its employees have sent 108 handwritten postcards to the Oncology Department at the Fayetteville Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VAMC) to honor patients during Military Appreciation Month. Each postcard was filled with uplifting messages of love, hope, and gratitude with the intent to encourage and support veterans as they persevere through their cancer treatments. The postcard drive was led by Consilium Cares, the dedicated philanthropic initiative of Consilium Staffing.