At VA health facilities, whistleblowers still fear retaliation ...

GySgt Wayne A. Ekblad — Fri, 06 Mar 2015 04:24:28 -0500

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/at-va-health-facilities-whistleblowers-still-fear-retaliation/2015/03/05/a6774bda-b944-11e4-9423-f3d0a1ec335c_story.html?tid=hpModule_f8335a3c-868c-11e2-9d71-f0feafdd1394&hpid=z10

At VA health facilities, whistleblowers still fear retaliation

The new VA secretary promised a culture of reform, but the change hasn’t reached some facilities.

Response by CW5 Private RallyPoint Member made Mar 6 at 2015 7:41 AM

CW5 Private RallyPoint Member — Fri, 06 Mar 2015 07:41:12 -0500

Thanks for bringing this story to our attention, GySgt Wayne A. Ekblad. I believe this is evidence that the culture at VA will be extremely slow to change. The Secretary can trumpet the successes - and if they are true successes, then that's great - but the mentality, the attitude, the culture of the lower level workers must change. And Brandon Coleman is living proof that it has not yet changed. Until it does, the VA remains a broken agency, in my opinion.

Response by SGT Jim Z. made Mar 6 at 2015 8:16 AM

SGT Jim Z. — Fri, 06 Mar 2015 08:16:32 -0500

It is a shame this whistleblower feels this way and I think the people that need to be terminated are the incompetent ones that are causing this man all his issues. Yes I know the secretary ordered sweeping changes but they do not happen overnight but someone needs to look into this quickly because one suicide is too many and if they could have been prevented by getting proper care the people who did not do their jobs should be tried for criminal negligence at the least if not homicide.

Response by CPT Pedro Meza made Sep 22 at 2015 2:47 PM

CPT Pedro Meza — Tue, 22 Sep 2015 14:47:32 -0400

The reality of life is that all whistleblowers fall into the paradigm of snitches and humans always seek out vengeance, to which the whistleblower needs to seek revenge to by using the courts to sue for individual damages from the perpetrators.