Walter Reed Army Medical Center
In February 2007, two articles were published by The Washington Post which highlighted the unsatisfactory conditions and mismanagement at the Walter Reed army Medical Center (WRAMC) in Washington DC. Though reports of cases of neglected outpatient care surfaced back in 2004 (these cases are still under investigation), it only gained major media and public attention after the publication in 2007, resulting in prompt congressional and executive action.
Series of articles were published by Dana Priest and Anne Hull in The Washington Post beginning early 2007. These articles outlined the neglect of wounded soldiers and their family at the Walter Reed. The main focus of the article was the Building 18.The building was described to be in a bad shape with infestation with rodent and cockroaches. Problems with provision basic needs such as, heat and water, was also mentioned by the soldiers at the facility, let alone the conditions of the walls and the rooms they lived in. With reports of drug dealers working in front of the facility, the unmonitored entrances was seen as the obvious security threats, forcing the injured soldiers at the facility to rotate duties as guards. There were also reports of mishandling of the funds worth $30,000 provided for the improvement of condition at WRAMC.
It was also pointed out in the column that the system for processing information requires a lot of unnecessary filing of the documents. A typical soldier is required to file 22 documents with eight different commands to enter and exit the medical processing world. This has resulted in an inefficient communications at different levels and poor medical database record keeping methods.Some soldiers were even required to prove their services in Afghanistan and Iraq since the WRAMC employees could not locate their records.
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