VA's Irregular discharge Rule ?

Loma Linda VA Hospital, 2nd Floor, 2NE, Nieuwenhuysen

October 27, 2007

Carl G. Mueller, Nam 68 Phone: (909) 866-9310
PO Box 120707
38941 N Bay Drive
Big Bear Lake, CA 92315-8941

Loma Linda VA Hospital, 2nd Floor, 2NE
Mr. Jerry Smith
11201 Benton Street
Loma Linda, CA 92357

Dear Mr. Jerry Smith:
Please send me the written report stating the details as to why I was irregularly discharged, on or about the 2nd week of Sept. 2007, from your “Problems Group”.

Also put in writing why my Social Worker Ms. Caron Bayor, LCSW did NOT receive detailed information as to why I was irregularly discharged from Problems Group.

Also put in writing if you gave a written report to Doctor Nicolaas-John-Van Nieuwenhuysen about the irregular discharge and also state in writing if Doctor Nieuwenhuysen requested such a report?

These are NOT rhetorical questions? These are NOT questions that are for a pending court case. I am however currently looking into 42 U.S.C. 290ee-3, 290ff-3 Federal laws and 42CFR Part 2 Federal regulations and the VA’s compliance with these Federal laws and regulations.

I want this letter to act as my FORMAL REQUEST to the other government agencies and representatives whom I’m sending this letter to. I request that they also make enquiries about the Loma Linda VA Hospital’s compliance regarding the above Federal laws and regulations. Also the VA hospitals record keeping obligations regarding housing rules with VARP Inc. How those rules or lack of rules with VARP have an affect on veterans in the hospital counseling group? In my case “Problems Group” run by Jerry Smith. I feel my irregular discharge was because of my violation(s) of VARP’s unwritten rules. These unwritten violations where then enforced by Jerry Smith who used unwritten “Problem Group rules” as an opportunity (see note1) to give me a discharge which according to unwritten rules removes me from VARP Inc. housing and the hospital.

Your fast response is requested. If you don’t want to respond please be professional enough to also make that statement in writing.

Sincerely,

Carl G. Mueller, Nam 68

Note 1: Opportunity
I feel Jerry Smith didn’t like me because I made him look foolish in his “Significant Other” group. I would always cry in these groups and Jerry would always call on me to make a statement as to why I was crying. I was feeling like Jerry was using me to grandstand for him. So the third time this happened in the group I said while crying, “I’m not qualified to give advice because I have been divorced 3 times.” But Jerry insisted I give my opinion. So this time rather to go on and talk about how terrible it was for me to get a divorce and never have seen my son grow up, I told the wife’s of the veterans that they should divorce their husbands because they hurt them too much in the past and if the husbands can prove they had beaten the addiction then, if they really love each other, they can get married again. Jerry took exception to this because in my opinion it made Jerry look stupid. Stupid because Jerry always liked to have a big crescendo climax type finish where the wives are crying for their husbands efforts and the husbands are crying because their addicts and hurt their wives. Now this time the wives are looking at their husbands like ya, you do deserve a divorce. Remember, all these wife’s are going to Al-Anon and that’s a no BS program unlike Jerry’s 3rd attempt at using me in his grandstanding climaxing performance.

CC:
US Dept. of Health & Human SVCS
50 United Nations Plaza, Rm #322
San Francisco, CA 94102

Dept. of Alcohol and Drug Program
Licensing & Certification
1700 “K” Street
Sacramento, CA 95814-4037

Office of Alcohol & Drug Admin.
850 E. Foothill Blvd, Suite E
Rialto, CA 92367

US Congressman Jerry Lewis
1150 Brookside Ave., Suite J-5
Redlands, CA 92373

Sen. Barbara Boxer
201 N. E Street, Suite 210
San Bernardino 92401

VARP Inc.
1100 N. “D” Street
San Bernardino, CA 92410



Reference:
“First Do No Harm”
Oct. 26, 2007, Mary Engel, LA Times, “State imposes fines on medical centers: Under a new law, nine CA hospitals are penalized for putting patients at risk of injury or death.”
Mary.engel@latimes.com
Note 2:
Google:
Kathleen Billingsley, deputy director of the Center for Healthcare Quality at the California Dept. of Public Health.
http://www.chicoer.com/ci_7285394?source=most_viewed

Staff writer Larry Mitchell can be reached at 896-7759 or lmitchell@chicoer.com

newsforveterans@cdva.ca.gov