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According to an article in the Sunday Washington post conditions for outpatients at the hospital are poor. Once patients no longer need to be hospitalized they are housed in the 200 room building 18.
Surely we can do better than what is described in the Post story. Although this is a military hospital, I have that old gut feeling that political appointees are showing their ineptitude once again in Washington DC.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/17/AR2007021701172.html
EDIT Part two of the Post's series.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/18/AR2007021801335.html?sub=new
Surely we can do better than what is described in the Post story. Although this is a military hospital, I have that old gut feeling that political appointees are showing their ineptitude once again in Washington DC.
Behind the door of Army Spec. Jeremy Duncan's room, part of the wall is torn and hangs in the air, weighted down with black mold. When the wounded combat engineer stands in his shower and looks up, he can see the bathtub on the floor above through a rotted hole. The entire building, constructed between the world wars, often smells like greasy carry-out. Signs of neglect are everywhere: mouse droppings, belly-up cockroaches, stained carpets, cheap mattresses.
On the worst days, soldiers say they feel like they are living a chapter of "Catch-22." The wounded manage other wounded. Soldiers dealing with psychological disorders of their own have been put in charge of others at risk of suicide.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/17/AR2007021701172.html
EDIT Part two of the Post's series.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/18/AR2007021801335.html?sub=new
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