OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma City Veterans Affairs Medical Center has a new director.
Deputy VA Secretary Sloan Gibson announced Friday that Wade Vlosich will take over as director. He replaces interim director Gerald Darnell.
Vlosich comes to Oklahoma City from the Harry S Truman memorial Veterans' Hospital in Columbia, Missouri, where he was also the director.
Gibson was in Oklahoma to visit VA hospitals in Muskogee and Oklahoma City. He spoke Friday in Oklahoma City with U.S. Sens. Jim Inhofe and James Lankford. Lankford said the appointment of a full-time director provides much-needed permanent leadership.
Gibson's visit comes following allegations of missed diagnoses and poor treatment of patients at the Oklahoma City VA Medical Center.