“Morale is way down at the VA right now,” said Ginger Schechter, MD, a 17-year health care professional at the South Santa Rosa VA Clinic. “Staff, including MDs, Psychiatrists, Nurses and researchers, are leaving the VA due to a lack of support from and confidence in new VA management with this administration,” she explained.
She and about thirty fellow veterans and veterans’ supporters gathered Friday, 10/31, at the South Santa Rosa Veterans Clinic in Santa Rosa, CA to rally for public support in stopping the decline of veterans health services.
Among the additional threats to VA service quality and breadth are the current trend to shift care and resources to the private sector, the dismantling of VA workers’ unions, unfounded accusations of fraud and the HIPPA private VA patient information that has been compromised by DOGE…