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Washington, D.C. – U.S. Representatives Debbie Dingell (MI-12) and Tim Walberg (MI-07) today introduced legislation that would enhance transparency requirements at VA hospitals. Hospitals that receive reimbursement from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) must report a variety of quality measures to the National Healthcare Safety Network, including surgical infections. The VA Transparency Enhancement Act will help improve VA reporting requirements by bringing them more in line with other hospitals.
Washington, D.C. – Today, Congressman Tim Walberg (MI-07) praised the House Judiciary Committee for passing the Due Process Act, bipartisan legislation he helped introduce to curb civil asset forfeiture abuse and defend the American people's due process and private property rights. The legislation incorporates many of the key provisions of the Fifth Amendment Integrity Restoration Act (FAIR Act), which Congressman Walberg introduced with Senator Rand Paul in January 2015.
U.S. Reps. Tim Walberg, R-Tipton, and Debbie Dingell, D-Dearborn, met with surgical and sterile processing staff about particulate matter that started turning up on sterilized instrument trays last fall, following the repair of a water main break near the hospital's sterile processing department.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Representatives Debbie Dingell (MI-12) and Tim Walberg (MI-07) today released the following statement on the ongoing contamination issue at the VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System.Dingell and Walberg have been in constant communication with the VA since being alerted that surgeries continue to be canceled or moved to different facilities because particulate matter has been observed on sterile surgical equipment.
"There have been more victims in this battle than should be called criminals," Walberg said. "What we have been doing has not been working. There is a better way."
Walberg had helped introduce a bi-partisan bill to strengthen safeguards to ensure infants born into a life of drug addiction are safely cared for and protected.
Every two weeks an average of one person dies of an opioid overdose in Jackson County.
That number surprised a number of people at a heroin forum being held today at the Jackson High School library.
The forum, headed by Congressman Tim Walberg, brought together health officials, law enforcement, former addicts and members of the public to focus attention on the size and scope of the heroin problem in Jackson.
On average, one person dies every two weeks from a heroin overdose in Jackson County.
Christopher Risner was a user.
"I definitely have the disease of addiction," said Risner.
He started taking opiates when he was 17 years old. The former high school basketball star had scholarships to multiple college, but threw it all away because the addiction was that powerful.
Washington, D.C. – Congressman Tim Walberg (MI-07) released the following statement in response to Veterans Affairs Secretary Bob McDonald's comparison today of wait lines for VA medical care to wait times at Disney.
U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell, D-Dearborn, confirmed that she and U.S. Rep. Tim Walberg, R-Tipton, spoke to VA officials at the Ann Arbor facility after hearing of a delay from a veteran's family and were told that "intermittent" problems with particulate matter being found on surgical equipment trays or cases continue.