To increase local contracts to include for primary care and we are removing leadership where w appropriate. We are going to we have suspended all s. E. S. Performancs awards for vha for fy14. Ng we are focusing our hr hiringay efforts on bringing clinical engineering and administrative staff to the field. Secretary gibson will travel ton a series of facilities over the weeks to meet with veterans, their families and employees toh identify obstacles to Quality Health care. Ee and secretary gibson has said we must restore americas trust in Va Health Care system. We must restore that one veteran at a time. Our dedicated workforce over a a third of whom are veterans are engaged. Mr. Chairman, thank you to your dedication to and your care fore our nations fete rans. Mr. Griffin, you are recognized for five minutes. Chairman miller, ranking mmi, member michode and members of the committee, thank you for th opportunity to testify tonight e to discuss the results of the office of Inspector Gen
Now know from the whistle blowers about the wait list and the related mortalities. Largest Health Care Systems in the United States have driven improvements by harvesting and implementing best practices across their system. When organizations Like Community Health Systems identify a best practice, they move quickly to put the practice in place across all 205 facilities. This includes Patient Safety protocols, caregiver to patient interactions about medications and a leader accountability platform. I was concerned when i heard the wednesday on monday refers the amount of time they thaw it would take to make change. As john cotter would have us remember that the biggest okbjet tackle to achieving performance is high confidentsy. No matter what is decided, the va must embark upon change with a never before seen sense of urgency with a proven outcomes based solution. We open at the studor group that it can be as straightforward as transforming the rigger where they compel into an area wher
Past five or six years. But i think pretty obviously its a misallocation of the those resources. Mr. Collard. Not only a misallocation, but perhaps just looking the other way when you have the resources. I think i heard on monday night the fact, chairman miller, that you raised a specific financial number thats been invested or been provided for i. T. And i. T. Related services. The question was raised, wheres the money . And so whether its whether its misallocation or just, perhaps, an ignoring of those funds available, perhaps, leads to the current state. Dr. Mccaughey. Yes. The v. A. Budget has increased 173 from the year 2000 through 2012. That in inflation adjusted terms is 72 . The increase in total v. A. Patients was 69 . So the funding increased at a faster pace than the number of patients who had to be treated. And the number of acute care patients who need costly care increased only 49 . So the v. A. Funding should have been adequate to meet the increased demands on the syste
People. Iraqi the average sunni has no desire to live their life under isi rules. The good news is the average iraqi wants to move forward. Iraqi air force is basically granted, without american air power, it will be hard to turn the tide. You heard the reports the iranians say they want help. Should we encourage them to help , all of all things . We will probably need their help to hold that back. Their goal is to create a sectarian iraq. To have a puppet in baghdad, a shia dominated government where they control the outcome. Our goal is to have an inclusive iraq. Dealing with stalin, we will have to have some dialogue with iranians that say, lets coordinate efforts, but put a red line to the iranians. Do not use the crisis to take territory from the iraqi people. Put them on notice we will not iraq. Them invading into europe perspective from on the iran situation. The headline people blame the new horrors in iraq on the americanled invasion in 2003, but the exact inson why the countr
[applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] good afternoon. I and the Deputy Director here at the fdr president ial library it is my honor to welcome you to the 11th annual festival. Let me go over a couple of things would everyone please take out your Electronic Devices and tear them off so we dont have interruptions today. The next is if you have not had an opportunity to see the exhibit installed last year at this time we will be happy to give you one of these buttons to get you into the galleries for free today. And a . Thanks to our friends from cspan they are great supporters of all the programs and they are back today. To talk about how the session will go, amity shales will speak roughly 30 minutes she likes to do something very interactively she will talk about the process and how we came to fruition but then she is very open to questions from audiences to the above to take as many as possible. Come up to the microphone so cspan can catch your voice and face