“The Department of Veterans Affairs’ Denver Logistics Center (DLC) recently embarked on a plan to “insource” the warehousing and distribution of continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) devices and related supplies — at least one million veterans depend on these critical medical supplies each year. And while VA believes that insourcing medical supplies will improve care to veterans, it has not adequately studied its ability to deliver these medical supplies as effectively and efficiently as the private sector.”
“As we discuss in this article, there is a very real risk that the VA’s insourcing plan will degrade veteran care, while at the same time growing government and overlooking other aspects of the VA’s healthcare system that are in much greater need of attention…” Read the full article here.
Source: VA should shut down plans to insource critical medical supply distribution – By Jonathan Williams and Julia Di Vito, February 4, 2019. Federal News Network.
