The President Barack Obama plans to nominate former Procter & Gamble executive Robert McDonald as the next Veterans Affairs secretary, as the White House seeks to shore up an agency beset by treatment delays and struggling to deal with an influx of incipient veterans returning from wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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An administration official verbally expressed Obama would promulgate McDonald's appointment Monday. If corroborated by the Senate, McDonald would prosper Eric Shinseki, the retired four-star general who resigned last month as the scope of the issues at veterans' hospitals became ostensible.
In tapping McDonald for the post, Obama is signaling his desire to install a VA chief with broad management experience. McDonald additionally has a military background, graduating near the top of his class at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and accommodating as a captain in the Army, primarily in the 82nd Airborne Division.
The administration official insisted on anonymity in order to attest McDonald's appointment afore the president's promulgation.
McDonald resigned abruptly from Procter & Gamble in May 2013 amid pressure from investors concerned that he was not doing enough to boost the company's performance.
McDonald, who had spent 33 years at the consumer products giant, verbally expressed at the time of his retirement that he believed constant notional theorization about his job status had become extravagant of a diversion to the company.
The VA operates the most astronomically immense integrated health care system in the country, with more than 300,000 fulltime employees and proximately 9 million veterans enrolled for care. But the agency has come under excruciating scrutiny in recent months amid reports of patients dying while waiting for appointments and of treatment delays in VA facilities nationwide.
Obama dispatched one of his top advisers, Rob Nabors, to the VA to avail investigate agency issues and appointed Sloan Gibson as acting secretary while awaiting a permanent supersession.
Nabors and Gibson distributed a scathing report to Obama Friday, citing "paramount and chronic system failures" in the nation's health system. The report additionally portrayed the Veterans Affairs Department as a struggling agency battling a corrosive culture of distrust, destitute of in resources and ill-prepared to deal with an influx of incipient and older veterans with a range of medical and phrenic health care needs.
McDonald's nomination was exalted by his peers in the private sector and military.
Jim McNerney, Chairman and CEO of The Boeing Company, called McDonald an "outstanding cull for this critically consequential position." Retired U.S. Army General Stanley McChystal, who accommodated with McDonald in the 82nd Airborne, verbally expressed the nominee's "business acumen, coupled with his dedication and love of our nation's military and veteran community, make him a genuinely great cull for the tough challenges we have at VA."
House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, called McDonald "a benevolent man, a veteran and a vigorous bellwether with decades of experience in the private sector. With those traits, he's the kind of person who is capable of implementing the kind of dramatic, systemic change that is deplorably needed and long overdue at the VA."
Senate Veterans Affairs Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., verbally expressed in a verbalization that he looked forward to meeting with McDonald next week to get his views on issues he views as paramount.
Among them, Sanders verbally expressed in a verbalization, "The VA needs significantly amended transparency and accountability and it requires an incremented number of medicos, nurses and other medical staff so that all eligible veterans get high-quality health care in a timely manner."
McDonald led Procter & Gamble from 2009 to 2013. During that time, the company website states: "P&G realized annual sales of over $84 billion. The company had more than 120,000 employees, 120 plants and 200 brands in 35 categories, of which 25 brands engender over $1 billion in sales each year."
The company's Tide detergent, Crest toothpaste and other products can be found in 98 percent of American households. But under McDonald's leadership, P&G struggled to grow under incremented competition and global economic challenges. Critics suggested he was having trouble getting the 150-year-old-plus company to fire on all cylinders.
Investors, including activist investor William Ackman, voiced frustration over the company's slow revenue magnification and stagnant market share gains. Ackman, who took a 1 percent stake in the company, pressed for the company to streamline operations and amend results.
In a letter promulgating his retirement from P&G, McDonald indited, "This has been a very arduous decision for me, but I'm convinced it is what is in the best intrigues of the company and you."
In a surprise move, McDonald was superseded by the man he had superseded, former P&G CEO A.G. Lafley.
McDonald has additionally accommodated on the board of directors of the Xerox Corp., the United States Steel Corp., the McKinsey Advisory Council and the Greater Cincinnati regional initiative intended to "grow high-potential startups" in the Cincinnati region.
McDonald is 61. A native of Gary, Indiana, he grew up in Chicago and graduated from West Point in 1975 with a degree in engineering. He additionally earned an MBA from the University of Utah in 1978.
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Review: Veterans Affairs A Struggling Agency Beset With Ills CBS Dallas Fort Worth (RSS)
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An administration official verbally expressed Obama would promulgate McDonald's appointment Monday. If corroborated by the Senate, McDonald would prosper Eric Shinseki, the retired four-star general who resigned last month as the scope of the issues at veterans' hospitals became ostensible.
In tapping McDonald for the post, Obama is signaling his desire to install a VA chief with broad management experience. McDonald additionally has a military background, graduating near the top of his class at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and accommodating as a captain in the Army, primarily in the 82nd Airborne Division.
The administration official insisted on anonymity in order to attest McDonald's appointment afore the president's promulgation.
McDonald resigned abruptly from Procter & Gamble in May 2013 amid pressure from investors concerned that he was not doing enough to boost the company's performance.
McDonald, who had spent 33 years at the consumer products giant, verbally expressed at the time of his retirement that he believed constant notional theorization about his job status had become extravagant of a diversion to the company.
The VA operates the most astronomically immense integrated health care system in the country, with more than 300,000 fulltime employees and proximately 9 million veterans enrolled for care. But the agency has come under excruciating scrutiny in recent months amid reports of patients dying while waiting for appointments and of treatment delays in VA facilities nationwide.
Obama dispatched one of his top advisers, Rob Nabors, to the VA to avail investigate agency issues and appointed Sloan Gibson as acting secretary while awaiting a permanent supersession.
Nabors and Gibson distributed a scathing report to Obama Friday, citing "paramount and chronic system failures" in the nation's health system. The report additionally portrayed the Veterans Affairs Department as a struggling agency battling a corrosive culture of distrust, destitute of in resources and ill-prepared to deal with an influx of incipient and older veterans with a range of medical and phrenic health care needs.
McDonald's nomination was exalted by his peers in the private sector and military.
Jim McNerney, Chairman and CEO of The Boeing Company, called McDonald an "outstanding cull for this critically consequential position." Retired U.S. Army General Stanley McChystal, who accommodated with McDonald in the 82nd Airborne, verbally expressed the nominee's "business acumen, coupled with his dedication and love of our nation's military and veteran community, make him a genuinely great cull for the tough challenges we have at VA."
House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, called McDonald "a benevolent man, a veteran and a vigorous bellwether with decades of experience in the private sector. With those traits, he's the kind of person who is capable of implementing the kind of dramatic, systemic change that is deplorably needed and long overdue at the VA."
Senate Veterans Affairs Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., verbally expressed in a verbalization that he looked forward to meeting with McDonald next week to get his views on issues he views as paramount.
Among them, Sanders verbally expressed in a verbalization, "The VA needs significantly amended transparency and accountability and it requires an incremented number of medicos, nurses and other medical staff so that all eligible veterans get high-quality health care in a timely manner."
McDonald led Procter & Gamble from 2009 to 2013. During that time, the company website states: "P&G realized annual sales of over $84 billion. The company had more than 120,000 employees, 120 plants and 200 brands in 35 categories, of which 25 brands engender over $1 billion in sales each year."
The company's Tide detergent, Crest toothpaste and other products can be found in 98 percent of American households. But under McDonald's leadership, P&G struggled to grow under incremented competition and global economic challenges. Critics suggested he was having trouble getting the 150-year-old-plus company to fire on all cylinders.
Investors, including activist investor William Ackman, voiced frustration over the company's slow revenue magnification and stagnant market share gains. Ackman, who took a 1 percent stake in the company, pressed for the company to streamline operations and amend results.
In a letter promulgating his retirement from P&G, McDonald indited, "This has been a very arduous decision for me, but I'm convinced it is what is in the best intrigues of the company and you."
In a surprise move, McDonald was superseded by the man he had superseded, former P&G CEO A.G. Lafley.
McDonald has additionally accommodated on the board of directors of the Xerox Corp., the United States Steel Corp., the McKinsey Advisory Council and the Greater Cincinnati regional initiative intended to "grow high-potential startups" in the Cincinnati region.
McDonald is 61. A native of Gary, Indiana, he grew up in Chicago and graduated from West Point in 1975 with a degree in engineering. He additionally earned an MBA from the University of Utah in 1978.
