Source: The American Prospect
by Suzanne Gordon
“On August 5th, the Department of Veterans Affairs, Office of the Inspector General (VA OIG) released a report entitled ‘Review of Radiology Staffing and Services at the VA Washington D.C. Healthcare System’. The blandly titled report was an indictment of the second Trump administration’s misguided return-to-office (RTO) policy. The OIG documented that the RTO caused a ‘mass exodus’ of radiologists from the medical center and delays in patient care (although no documented patient harm). Additionally, the report found that facility leaders didn’t follow appropriate protocols in notifying quality management of known problems and failed to track incomplete radiologic studies. The OIG report appeared just five days after The American Prospect reported on multiple problems at the DC VA Medical Center, one of them being the loss of its radiologists.” (08/17/26)