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Phoenix VA Robots Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, Coast Guard and Chief (left)
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- VA HCS Phoenix Update 25 ► Vet Groups Join Fight Over Firing Law
- VA Fraud, Waste Abuse ► Reported 16 thru 30 SEP 2016
Phoenix VA Robots Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, Coast Guard and Chief (left) Superbugs have become resistant to many antibiotics and cleaning chemicals. New weapons are needed in the battle against germs that can pose a risk to patients, employees and visitors. The Phoenix VA robots — named Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, Coast Guard and Chief (dressed in their camouflage “uniforms”) – are used to quickly disinfect rooms inside the hospital, including ORs, ERs, patient rooms, ICUs, cath labs, restrooms and other public areas. Designed to enhance the facility’s already-thorough processes for cleaning rooms and killing the germs that can cause infections, operating the Germ Zapping Robots is quick and easy. First the room, bed and equipment are disinfected by hospital Environmental Management Service staff. Once the room is visually clean, the robot comes in and destroys anything left behind – it kills all the dangerous bacteria the naked eye can’t see. [Source: VAntage Point | September 22, 2016 ++] ***************************** VA HCS Phoenix Update 25 ► Vet Groups Join Fight Over Firing Law A dozen veteran and military groups have entered the legal fight with former Department of Veterans Affairs executive Sharon Helman in hopes they can salvage a law allowing the department to fire top managers more quickly. A federal appeals court this month allowed the Veterans of Foreign Wars, AMVETS, Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America and nine other groups to join the lawsuit between Helman and the VA. They argue the law used to fire her is constitutional and should be upheld. The outcome will determine the future of the 2014 law that allows executives to be terminated in three weeks with no option for an appeal and was part of an effort by Congress to root out a “corrosive” management culture after the VA’s national wait-time scandal. The VA announced it would abandoned the law in June — potentially handing Helman a win in court — because the Justice Department decided it violated the rights of the roughly 300 executives employed by the sprawling department. “This ruling is an important win for us,” the attorney for the veteran and military groups, Michael Morley, wrote in an email to Stars and Stripes. “Most basically, it shows that the court takes our arguments seriously and will not invalidate the [law] without considering them.” If the groups prevail, the VA could continue to expedite its firings of executives guilty of wrongdoing, which supporters including veterans groups hope will help fix the troubled department. Otherwise, Helman could win her lawsuit and the VA will return to the previous firing guidelines used for all federal executives. Morley, when reached by phone 26 SEP, said the court has allowed the groups’ argument that the streamlined firings are constitutional to be added into the lawsuit. Now, Helman and the VA will likely file responses with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in the coming weeks and there could be oral arguments heard in December or January, he said. The lawsuit also includes the National Association for Uniformed Services, Reserve Officers Association, Non-Commissioned Officers Association, Marine Corps League, Army Reserve Association, Marine Corps Reserve Association, U.S. Army Warrant Officers Association, Special Forces Association and Jewish War Veterans of the United States. [Source: Stars & Stripes | Travis Tritten | September 26, 2016 ++] ***************************** VA Fraud, Waste & Abuse ► Reported 16 thru 30 SEP 2016 
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