Adam Walmus, director of the Jack C. Montgomery VA Medical Center, has accepted a promotion to Houston to be director of the Michael E. Debakey VA Medical Center, which has been rated as “one of the most complex” VA medical centers in the country.
When Walmus first arrived he "saw the need for and got approved for, was to add inpatient mental health,” he said. “That’s 14 beds. And, to add inpatient rehabilitation for post-stroke, post-surgery patients. We have a 15-bed program. The fifth floor was closed when I got here. That’s where we put in our mental health unit and our palliative care program.”
The number of medical and surgical beds increased from 50 to 75. Walmus said they are in the final phases of adding a seven-bed hospice and palliative care program. By the end of this year, the medical center will have grown to 112 beds.
Walmus has brought in additional physicians as services have expanded: a chief of surgery, a second oncologist, a cardiologist, a hand surgeon, two neurologists, two anesthesiologists, two urologists, and four general surgeons."
Full Article: VAMC director promoted away
By Keith Purtell
Phoenix Staff Writer
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