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ARMY SURGEON GENERAL OUSTED IN WAKE OF WALTER
REED SCANDAL -- Reports say Lt. Gen. Kevin
Kiley
forced to resign.
Army Surgeon General - Lt. Gen. Kevin
Kiley
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Army Medical Chief Quits as Walter Reed Fallout
Grows
By Tony Capaccio
(Bloomberg) -- Lieutenant General Kevin Kiley, the U.S. Army's surgeon
general, has submitted his resignation, becoming the third official to
lose his job after disclosures last month of substandard care for
injured soldiers, the Army announced today.
Major General Gale Pollock, the current deputy surgeon general,
immediately assumed the top post, the Army said in a statement. Kiley
was the Army's top uniformed medical official and commander of the
Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington between 2002 and 2004.
Walter Reed is the focus of the disclosed problems.
Acting Army Secretary Pete Geren asked for Kiley's resignation
yesterday, a senior Defense Department official who asked not to be
identified told a group of reporters at the Pentagon.
Kiley, 56, was under intense congressional criticism for alleged
leadership failures in allowing outpatient services and facilities at
Walter Reed to deteriorate, until the shortcomings were exposed last
month in stories by the Washington Post.
During a House oversight committee hearing last week, Kiley acknowledged
gaps in care for casualties of the war in Iraq and other combat
operations. The care and housing at Walter Reed ``has not met our
standards,'' and is being corrected, Kiley said at the hearing.
President George W. Bush established a bipartisan commission to
investigate the extent of problems with medical facilities serving
active military personnel and veterans, as well as bureaucratic delays
in obtaining care.
Kiley received his medical degree from Georgetown University School of
Medicine in Washington and specializes in obstetrics and gynecology,
according to his biography posted on an Army Web site. He commanded an
Army field hospital in Saudi Arabia in 1991 during the military campaign
to oust Iraqi forces from Kuwait and later headed the Landstuhl Regional
Medical Center in Germany.
To contact the reporter on the story: Tony Capaccio at
acapaccio@bloomberg.net
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