Illinois Veterans Task Force
Heard speaker Cross while driving on the radio talk about the Illinois Veteran's Task Force hearings held in Romeoville a few days ago. I'll email his office for more information.
The Gov's fiscal mismanagement continues to cause waits for empty beds in the Vet Homes,
Understaffing at the state’s veterans homes is also a mounting problem. A recent AFSCME report pinpoints barriers faced by aged and disabled veterans seeking care in the state’s four veterans homes and the harm that funding cuts have caused to the quality of care provided. Nearly 1,000 veterans are on the homes’ waiting lists even though the facilities have more than 260 empty beds that cannot be filled due to lack of staff.Not to mention the insult to Veteran Hiring preferences created by the patronage hiring scandels.
“Illinois’ veterans deserve better,” said State Rep. Ron Stephens (R Greenville). "Those in need of care should not have to wait for months or even years to gain admittance when there are empty beds. Rather than confront the problem and hire needed staff, the Department of Veterans Affairs has increasingly relied on making employees work overtime, again causing a drop in the quality of care.”
AFSCME's full report can be found here.
3 comments:
Wishful thinking, Cross IS NOT the Speaker. That would be Speaker Madigan.
sorry... Leader Cross... when he did a bloggers someone asked what we should call him and he said Tom was fine...
...I should have stuck with just Tom here.
Blago slapped every veteran in the face
but than again he and his little crew of crooks have never served
Blago was in the Dick Mell 33 Army for a while, but he got preferential treatment, and than went AWOL
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