DC: Two whistle-blowers at a Louisiana Veterans Affairs hospital say they found widespread corruption and were subjected to uncomfortable retaliation when they brought their concerns forward.
Crystal LeJeune and Harvey Norris are whistle-blowers and former employees of the Alexandria, Louisiana VA Medical Center system.
Each worked at a clinic in Jennings, Louisiana — which was part of the Alexandria VA Health Care system; both are speaking out exclusively for the first time to The Daily Caller.
Both say that not only did they find widespread waste, fraud, and abuse — primarily in the Home Based Primary Care (HBPC) department — but experienced retaliation for speaking out.
Crystal LeJeune
The Allegations
LeJeune said in an Office of Special Counsel (OSC) complaint that she has witnessed “patient neglect, falsification of Veterans’ medical records, fraudulent billing, misuse of government vehicles, tampering with government vehicle tracking systems, and deceitful time documentation” at the hospital.
As part of her duties, LeJeune said she regularly examined the Veterans Equitable Resource Allocation (VERA) Report.
By examining the report, LeJeune found all sorts of waste.
“When I would go into the system, it proved they (HBPC employees) weren’t actually seeing patients,” LeJeune stated.
As one example, she noted that one HBPC nurse visited 11 patients in one morning, something which LeJeune said was impossible for a nurse making house calls.
“They were supposed to be seeing the patients every thirty days,” LeJeune said, “but that wasn’t happening. There was (one) who hadn’t been seen for more than one hundred thirty days, but there was numerous ones (patients) who hadn’t been seen on a regular basis.”
A group of HBPC employees also appeared to be using the cars for outside work.
“The car log wasn’t matching the GPS.”
In those instances, the car log would show little or no activity while the GPS showed the car making stops at several homes at addresses without a VA patient. more
Say it ain’t so.
Sacré Bleu.
Always the Health Care. Everywhere.
What a job they could do running the whole thing.
Medical Industrial State.
Bend over with your wallet out.
We call this type of work “mailing it in”.
Actually pretty common in the drudgery of routinely scheduled work where the worker is just there to get a paycheck.
Something you have to watch out for even in pest control. The slightly more honest ones just drive by to drop off a work ticket/invoice. The lazier ones just mail the invoice and never leave the office.
I have several customers due to this happening with other companies.
Security cams can be a bitch for dishonest people.
I have a S-I-L that has also done this a lot, among other atrocities she admits to and laughs about. She’s a social worker. Her place in hell is waiting.
” …were subjected to uncomfortable retaliation when they brought their concerns forward.”
Well there you go. Be a pussy, or smash it into their teeth.
Pick one.
But be aware donning the clothing of an adult may cause pain. You may be required to pick a point of resolve and stand on it.
What a novel fucking idea for people born in the last thirty years. Good luck, and Bon Chance.
Or go back to Twitter and use a username nobody (you think) can trace.
My experience a regional office. I was hired because I was disabled, 12 years later retired for Disability. The VA is an entire barrel full of Rotten Apples. I was also a guest for 15 months at a VA hospital. The kicked me out because I would not let a South American ward doctor do brain surgery on me. The tumor did not show on X-rays but she knew it was there.
Corruption in Louisiana? Balderdash!