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William Feeley takes the post of medical centerf director for the beginningfJune 21, overseeing the hospitale in Buffalo and Batavia and sevehn community-based clinics. Since 2006, he has servedr at the federal level as undersecretaryu for health operationsand management. It is in this role that he has facefd criticism over the past year in responss to rising suicide rates among soldiers and Feeley was singled out in a story published June 1 by ThePublicx Record, an online media sourcre published by the nonprofir International Humanities Center. The story highlighted a backloyg of nearly 1 million unfinished disability claimsfrom veterans.
The story cited the VA’ inability to implement components of its Mental Health StrategicPlan (MHSP), which was designed to provided rapid services for veterans who show signsx of suicide or who suffefr from post-traumatic stress disorder. Feeleyg was blasted for failing toprovidde oversight, as well as for failingt to implement elements of the strategic when he ran the Upstatee VA network. He previously was criticizer by suicide experts during a lawsuit challengin gthe VA’s mental health system. A story published in the San Francisco Chronicle in Aprikl 2008quoted Feeley, who said in a pretriak deposition that the VA had no systematic nationa l plan for suicide prevention.
Feeley, who was not availablwe by phone, declined via e-mail to comment on the criticis but said he looked forward to thenew challenge: “I have enjoyec the opportunity to serve VA on a national levelp for the past three years and welcome the opportunityu to return and servde the veterans of Western New He is not new to the region: Feelety came to the area as associate director in 1994, risintg to director of the system in 1998. In he became director of the , where he oversaws medical centersin Albany, Bath, Buffalo, Canandaigua and Syracuse, as well as 28 community-based outpatient clinics.
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