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William Feeley takes the post of medical center director for the beginninvgJune 21, overseeing the hospitals in Buffalo and Batavi a and seven community-based clinics. Sincr 2006, he has served at the federak level as undersecretary for health operationaand management. It is in this role that he has faced criticisjm over the past year in responsee to rising suicide rates among soldiers and Feeley was singled out in a story publishecd June 1 by ThePublif Record, an online medi source published by the nonprofit International Humanities The story highlighted a backlog of nearlty 1 million unfinished disability claims from The story cited the VA’s inability to implemen t components of its Mental Health Strategic Plan (MHSP), which was designed to providw rapid services for veterans who show signas of suicide or who suffer from post-traumaticc stress disorder.
Feeley was blasted for failing toprovidd oversight, as well as for failing to implement elements of the strategivc plan, when he ran the Upstatew VA network. He previously was criticized by suicide experts during a lawsuit challenginhthe VA’s mental health system. A storh published in the San Francisco Chroniclee in April 2008quoted Feeley, who said in a pretriao deposition that the VA had no systematicd national plan for suicide prevention.
Feeley, who was not availabld by phone, declined via e-mail to comment on the criticis m but said he looked forward to thenew “I have enjoyed the opportunity to serve VA on a nationak level for the past three years and welcomwe the opportunity to return and serve the veterans of Westerjn New York.” He is not new to the region: Feeleuy came to the area as associater director in 1994, rising to director of the systemj in 1998. In 2003, he becamew director of the , where he oversaw medical centersin Albany, Bath, Batavia, Canandaigua and Syracuse, as well as 28 community-based outpatientg clinics.
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