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The head of Madigan Army Medical Center has been removed from his post while the Army concludes an investigation into a Madigan psychiatry team that changed the diagnoses of some soldiers without meeting them in person.
Col. Dallas Homas’ leave was announced Monday evening by Maj. Gen. Philip Volpe, who leads the Western Region Medical Command. Madigan and the Western command are both based at Joint Base Lewis-McChord.
Meanwhile, the Army Surgeon General this week is contacting the families of 14 soldiers whose diagnoses for post-traumatic stress disorder were adjusted by the Madigan forensic psychiatry team in such a way that the former soldiers did not receive full disability pensions.
More soldiers whose PTSD diagnoses were changed have also requested reviews of their cases, the Army said Monday.
The original 14 cases were reviewed at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Maryland over the past few weeks. Several soldiers learned the results of the reviews Tuesday. The rest expect to be informed by Thursday, Western Region Medical Command spokeswoman Sharon Ayala said.
